Telecom and Clear ATM for KCCS
28 April 2001
The Telecom ATM to KCCS now has twenty circuits (PVCs) installed, over the last
six weeks there have been fourteen PVCs installed replacing WDDS/DEDX
from stacked widebands at KC and upgrades from ISDN circuits.
Several more PVCs are due for installation early next month.
The first PVC on the Clear ATM was installed today, it is a 2meg domestic
internet connection to Clear's CLIX. A further 1meg pvc to CLIX for
international internet bandwidth (Southern Cross fibre cable to USA) has been
ordered for installation 10May. This will be moved to 2M if tests are
sucessful. Two customer PVCs of 512k each have been ordered for connection
to the Clear ATM.
15 April 2001
The Clear ATM was at last fully commissioned today. The final delay was
waiting on an ATM card for KC's Cisco 7507 router. The wrong type of interface
card had been obtained last December (MM instead of SM). Another spare ATM
controller has been ordered for delivery end April.
30 March 2001
The Clear contractors have now completed the last splice in the fibre cable
to KCCS. The circuit is now being tested for a few days.
28 January 2001
There are now over twelve circuits to KCCS being moved from stacked wideband
to ATM/Frame Relay. Although these were requested early December they are
only now being actioned. Until now the only circuits using the Telecom ATM at
KC have been international and domestic internet bandwidth from Telecom
(Global GAteway),
International bandwidth from Aaria, Telecom IPnet services and three new
Frame Relay connections to KC customers.
20 January 2001
With the Christmas/New Year holiday just about over the contractors have
ersumed work on the Clear ATM. It now appears there are several issues with
termination at Queen Street which will delay complete installation for a
few more weeks.
Clear have relocated their equipment to avoid problems with other circuits
terminating in a PABX room. The internal connections to KC are almost
complete.
28 December 2000
Clear contractors completed excavation in Queen Street to route a fibre
cable into 109. This is now terminated in the basement and will be
connected to Clear equipment in KC's offices early in the new year.
22 December 2000
Further connections into ATM were completed today, KC's international
bandwidth from Aaria was moved from a frame relay to an ATM VC and
a 2meg frame relay link to ATL was also moved to an ATM VC.
Several attempts during this week to move IPnet services to an ATM VC
have failed. The IPnet services will comtinue to use a 2meg frame realy
circuit installed to Titirangi. This move will be revisted after the
Christmas/New Year holidays.
14-15 December 2000
The 155Mbit ATM connection from Telecom NZ was commissioned 12th December
and over the next few days data circuits from Telecom Global Gateway,
for international
traffic, and Netgate for domestic traffic were moved to use this new
circuit.
This ATM is delvered as a single mode fibre cable and connects to an ATM
swith at Telecom's Mayoral Drive exchange. Telecom's Netgate and Global
Gateway supply domestic and international bandwidth using Virtual circuits
(VCs) over the ATM, this allows existing 2meg frame realy and a DDS link
connecting into one of KC's stacked wideband DDS to be replaced.
12 December 2000
The Telecom ATM circuit is just about fully installed as the last stage of
joining fibre cables in Queen Street was completed and the whole fibre
circuit was tested 'end-to-end' this morning.
This has
brought to an end a rather long drawn out process where multiple delays
have resulted in this Telecom ATM circuit taking over five months from
initial ordering to completion. Originally expected in October 2000
this near two to three month delay had caused some major problems in providing
resources to KC customers and having substantial investment in ATM
hardware idle over the same period.
As interim measures Telecom were able to share various frame relay circuits
into KC with internal and national data connections and a major
realignment of channels used on four stacked wideband DDS allowed several
contiguous blocks of timeslots to be made available for new customer
circuits.
11 December 2000
Clear ATM equipment arrives in KC's offices today. The first stage of
installing the Clear ATM circuit was started.
The Telecom contractor is completing the last fibre cable splice today
This is in Queen Street just outside 109. The only remaining task is to
provide a single mode fibre cable between the Telecom junction box and
the Cisco 7507 ATM controller in the Computer room
5 December 2000
On Sunday 3rd December the contractor started the footpath excavation and
it was completed late Monday 4th. We now have a fibre cable into the
basement of the building.
Another Telecom contractor installed some fibre termination cabinets in
KC's computer room. He expects to have this all completed by 8th December.
30 November 2000
Still no ATM. The contractor has still not started the street excavation
and now it appears unlikely anything will be done for another week or so.
Two problems have arisen - No street work over this weekend as it is the annual
'Santa Parade' on Saturday and the Coucil require the work to be completed
before December! An extension has been allowed to 4th December but confidence
in actually getting this ATM circuit is quickly evaporating. :-(
20 November 2000
More delays with the ATM installation. The City Council approval for
excavating the footpath was delayed apparently due to staff holidays in
the Council. Now approval has been given to have the job completed by
1 December 2000 so completion is expected by 28/29th November.
20 October 2000
After some delays in processing paperwork for the ATM circuit from Telecom
the expected installation date is now 10th November, this closer date
was provided as it seems approval from the City council can be obtained
sooner than expected.
12 September 2000
The installation of ATM was included in the agenda at a meeting with
Telecom in KC's new offices (109 Queen Street) today. Apparently there
was some paperwork delays within Telecom which have now been resolved and
the installation is proceeding.
The next stage is with cable installation contractors who have to
excavate the footpath between the BNZ tower and 109 Queen Street, a distance
of about 15 metres, to connect the fibre to a junction point in the BNZ tower.
12 August 2000
As part of the move to new offices at 109 Queen Street, two ATM data
have been circuits ordered, one from Telecom NZ and the other from
Clear Communications. Both are due for installation in November/December.
Four Telecom stacked wideband DDS and eight Primary Rate ISDN circuits
have already been installed at Queen Street. A new 2meg domestic link
to Telecom Netgate and a 2meg DDS to Highland Ave are also installed.
The Telecom ATM will be a 155Mbit circuit and will initially be used to
connect international and domestic internet circuits to Telecom Netgate,
IPnet services to Netgate and eventually ADSL services to Netgate.
Some eighteen data circuits (MDDS/DDS and DEDX) to customer sites will be
moved from existing stacked wideband DDS at KCCS to frame relay circuits
connecting into the Telecom ATM.
The Clear ATM will initially be a 34Mbit circuit with domestic traffic
connection to Clear, frame relay connection to Aaria and initially six
KCCS customer data circuits again using frame relay.
Both ATM circuits will connect to KCCS's Cisco 7507 router.
Enquires about services provided by KCCS or matters related to this move
should be made to
David Dix .
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