With Victoria’s Big Build Projects on the go, there are many different road works sites opening up. This particular site is in the grounds of St John of God Hospital in Berwick is where they are setting up to duplicate the road bridge over the Princes Highway at Clyde Road.
With over 100 engineers and project personnel on site, stable and reliable fast internet is required. The client, one of our major Civil Engineering clients, requested that the team from Essential Communications Services come in to install four (4) Business Grade Starlink services as well as a Telstra 5G Mobile Broadband back up service.
This amount of Starlink services was certainly going to be required as this office complex would be housing a full team of engineers and project managers for the duration of the road works.
As with any of these installations, it all starts on the roof. With how many services there were to be installed, we expected that it would take us a full five (5) days to complete, test and commission. Our first step was to install one Business Grade Starlink service and ensure that, as these are not a self aligning dish, we had it angled and aligned exactly to the south south west, picking up the best possible signal from the Starlink satellite array.
After ensuring that this was done, we then moved onto installing the 5G Mobile Broadband service. As you will note from the photo’s, the tower is within 300 metres of the site, so the speed we were able to receive from the 5G service was phenominal. As a back up service, this would be more than sufficient.
Moving on from that, we quickly continued to install the further three (3) Business Grade Starlink services, ensuring they were aligned exactly the same as the first.
Once everything was installed on the roof, we moved onto pushing the cabling into the server rack room. To keep it all neat and tidy and away from possible damage, we mounted square conduit to the floor and ensured that the cabling, both the four cables from the 5G Mobile Broadband installation and the four cables from the individual Business Grade Starlink dishes, was encased within the conduit and safe from damage. Once all the testing was completed and the system fully commissioned, our team ensured that there would be no possible insect or animal ingress to the server room by fully waterproofing the floor penetration.
All in all this was another successful installation completed by Essential Communications Services. The client is totally satsified and can continue with the bridge build.
If you have a communications & telecommunications infrastructure challenge please do not hesitate to get in touch with Essential Communications Services, it would be our pleasure to be of assistance to you anywhere in Australia.