So, having observed fibre installations both on the net and in real-life locally, I know a bit about the process. But I was wondering if anyone could tell me what exactly this is? Obviously it's a joint or node of some kind, but... what kind? That's standing up ready to have the lid there put on and be laid down into the 3-cover footway boxes. It's right next to a PCP which doesn't have an FTTC twin yet, but will (Openreach spreadsheets, local planning application). About 500m up the same road is a PCP and an installed FTTC twin, where they had the same equipment.
The process isn't very well documented on the net, is it? You'd think it would be. Loads of people have cameras, loads of people are very interested. So first comes this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/gazzyk1ns/fib...
Which presumably blows compressed air into that red thing in the first picture, with BT written on it in white and a blue tube coming out of it.
To make my questions concise:
1. In the first picture, does that node/joint simply serve the FTTC cabinet that will eventually be there, or does it perform a wider distribution role? If so, what?
2. So, Fibre compressor > smaller red BT-marked thing with what looks like a pressure gauge on it > ...then what? How and where does the actual fibre enter the equation?
Thanks for any info. Loads of people seem to be wondering what's in the smaller ECI cabs too, I don't know why more people haven't poked cameras at them:
Side-door, upper - presumably for the copper loop-through?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/gazzyk1ns/ftt...
Side-door, lower, presumably fibre coming in?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/gazzyk1ns/ftt...
Front... not much to see.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/gazzyk1ns/ftt...
Very old GPO PCP de-shelled:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/gazzyk1ns/cab...
The same cabinet re-shelled with extra room for the loop-through to FTTC cab section:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/gazzyk1ns/Cab...
Edited by gazzyk1ns (Mon 06-Aug-12 10:00:12)