Optical Fibre Splicing in Lilydale

With about 594 people per square kilometre, Lilydale properties often need several hundred metres of link, which is routine for fibre and impossible for copper. At roughly 115 metres, Lilydale sits on the rise east of the city, with mostly short links between buildings.

Lilydale sits about 34 kilometres out in Yarra Ranges. Home offices in detached rooms are the usual driver. Lilydale sits inside Yarra Ranges, and council approval does not apply to fibre work.

If we are already in Chirnside Park or Coldstream that day, Lilydale is on the same run and we will usually offer you the same window. The 2021 census recorded 17348 people in Lilydale, an area of roughly 29.2 square kilometres within Yarra Ranges, postcode 3140.

Worth knowing before we quote: It was rebuilt in November 2021 as part of the Level Crossing Removal Project, with the railway line being raised above Maroondah Highway. Development era tells us whether there is existing conduit in the ground, which is the difference between a short job and a long one. The area we cover around Lilydale runs through Chirnside Park, Coldstream, Gruyere and Montrose, and a booking in any of them is treated the same way.

The run from Boronia to Lilydale is about 12.9 kilometres north-east. That is a normal day for us, not a special trip. With Lilydale railway station in Lilydale, the streets nearest the line generally carry the oldest stock in the suburb.

Another piece of background on the suburb: Lilydale has segregated bicycle facilities including the start of the Lilydale to Warburton Rail Trail which follows the course of the Lilydale-Warburton railway line which was built in 1901 but closed in 1964.