NS205
Telecommunications Route Markers
NS205: Telecommunications Route Markers
Provides the specifications and guidelines for the installation of Protection Fibre Conduits installed stand‑alone (i.e. independent of power cable routes) and includes the associated requirements for cable selection, conduit materials, installation methods, mechanical protection, segregation from electrical assets, identification and marking, and inspection and testing necessary to ensure the safe, compliant and reliable deployment of fibre infrastructure within the Ausgrid network.
Scope
This document details the requirements for Ausgrid’s buried telecommunications assets installed stand-alone to be made locatable after installation and reinstatement works are complete. This standard defines asset location methods to be applied either at the time of new buried asset installation, or by retrofitting to pre-existing assets. NS205 also defines asset location requirements for Ausgrid telecommunications infrastructure installed through bridge and tunnel
voids.
This standard does not apply to earthing, electrical or other utility underground infrastructure. Refer to clause 5.21 of this standard, and also NS235 Telecommunications UGOH Transition standard for instances where the underground infrastructure transitions to overhead installation.