As far as I'm aware the fibre cabinets go back to their 'home' exchange, the same one as the PCP, then from there go on existing fibre routes to the handover exchange?

Seems likely that it would follow existing ducting routes ? may not get involved with the 'home' exchange but likely to follow the pipework to there and then on to the handover exchange.

In reply to a post by Ribble:

In all likelihood there will be a single AN serving FTTC and HTTP in a given exchange area

the various documents and reports I have read that doesnt seem to be the case. Each FTTC enabled cabinet seems to have its own aggregation point. which yes would serve both the cabinet and FTTP enabled customers.

And if Openreach refuse then that is their right.

Openreach is a big bad evil corporate who cares very little about us individuals, hence the mention of Virgin Media who also are known for sticking to a network delivery plan.

Who knows Openreach might surprise you

correct but then they lose takeup, revenue etc. thats not good business.

I dont think I will be alone in not wanting to pay for BT to take the long route on the line, when they are charging by the metre.

Edited by Chrysalis (Mon 18-Mar-13 11:08:02)

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when they are charging by the meter.

That's what meters are for.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

the various documents and reports I have read that doesnt seem to be the case. Each FTTC enabled cabinet seems to have its own aggregation point. which yes would serve both the cabinet and FTTP enabled customers.

Rather defeats the purpose of an aggregation node if it's only serving a single cabinet, doesn't it?

These nodes aggregate multiple fibre cabinets / areas in a kind of trunk and branches arrangement. They don't map to individual cabinets, that would make them pointless.

ok so if there is one node serving multiple cabinets why is it often quoted as distance from cabinet?

when if one node serves many cabinets then the cabinet can be quite far away from the node.

I accept what you saying, just saying what led me to that conclusion.

In terms of cost of installation, apparently each order is evaluated individually, as a customer I would expect to see the report of why i would cost X amount and if the cable routing isnt direct I would expect to hear a good reason why, so if there was a technical reason they couldnt do it or perhaps it actually is more expensive to go direct I would accept that, the bit I have an issue with is if it was longer simply due to policy.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

ok so if there is one node serving multiple cabinets why is it often quoted as distance from cabinet?

Why is what quoted as distance from the cabinet?

The use of the word node is confusing in this context. A node is normally an active point, whereas an aggregation point I see as a dumb cable splitter.

Because people are making assumptions and complaining about a system before it has fully launched

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

The use of the word node is confusing in this context. A node is normally an active point, whereas an aggregation point I see as a dumb cable splitter.

Openreach call them aggregation nodes.

http://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/products/super-...