Pedestals

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Pedestals

• Existing and Future

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Pedestals key points

• Chorus has pedestals, but our design will need to
  be reviewed in light of the recent National
  Environmental Standards
• Chorus will offer pedestal co-location services
  to our customers on a commercial basis
• Once installed, space management within a
  pedestal will be subject to the terms of the
  Sub-loop Services STD.

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National Environmental Standard (NES)

• The National Environmental Standards for
  Telecommunication facilities came into force in
  September 2008.
• The regulations set out various telecommunication
  plant that can be installed under this umbrella
  if they fall within various conditions.

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NES and the Cabinet(s)

• The regulations set the footprint a cabinet can
  occupy and the maximum height i.e. 1.4m2 and
  1.8m respectively for Urban residential areas.
• They also set noise requirements external to the
  cabinet.
• A second cabinet can be placed along the first
  cabinet in an urban residential area if
• it can be contained within the 1.4m2
  footprintand
• it is no higher than 900mm from the concrete
  foundation plinth.
• The alternative is to place the second cabinet a
  minimum of 30 meters away from the first
• Note that there are other conditions that may
  apply depending on the areas classification in
  the relevant District Plan.

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Existing Pedestal

• The existing pedestal
• 19 rack mount vertically mounted
• 11RU mounting space
• 450 watts heat dissipation
• no local power and
• all services and terminations are in the parent
  cabinet
• The cabinet does not comply with the National
  Environmental Standards as a second cabinet on a
  common site.
• The pedestals height of 1095mm exceeds the 900mm
  limit
• Note that it can still be installed either 30
  metres away or apply for permission outside the
  NES

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Proposed Pedestal Redesign

• Initial discussions have been held to design a
  pedestal which complies with the NES.
• With the experience of Eaton it is expected that
  the redesign will be very straight forward.
• Depending on the changes required, a new version
  would require about 3 months for design and
  prototype production.
• It would be another 2 months before a new
  pedestal would roll off the production line.