FTTP for a minority off a cabinet

I have found that OR have installed 'overhead' fibre to about 30 premises from my cab (6 port distribution points have appeared on the relevant DP's and the Broadband Availability Checker confirms FTTP available).

My question is why just a 'random' choice of a small number of premises and is it a precursor to the whole cabinet going FTTP ?.

Also intrigued as to why overhead fibre (there are yellow markers on the relevant DP's saying 'Warning Overhead Fibre')

Warning to make sure that people don't do things that break it

Some areas start out as a small bit done and then expand, others are because of a small community project, other are funded to get people from below 30 Mbps to above it. So which it is will depend on the location.

Overhead, because it’s cheaper to deploy.

Unless things have changed dramatically recently, no FTTP is supplied from cabinets.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Unless things have changed dramatically recently, no FTTP is supplied from cabinets.

I didn't realise that (on the checker for a property that I know has FTTP it still states the Cab number). If they are not fed from the cabinet, how are they fed ?

The copper line remains in place for most people and thus the cabinet number remains, in the same was ADSL2+/VDSL2 estimates remain.

If they have none of those estimates exist then suggests it is a fibre only supply which is usually for new build properties (some very long line ADSL2+ where FTTP gets rolled out see the ADSL/ADSL2+ figure vanish since no connection was possible too)

There may be a few cabinets in villages where a spare fibre gets reused to suppy the GPON FTTP for that area, but this will be fairly small cabinets. The 99.9% rule is the fibre comes from an aggregation node, this may be next to a cabinet in the ground or it might be some distance away depending on network topology in the area.

Only from X2 subtended headends being installed in many cabinets, but that probably wasn't what the OP meant anyway.

In reply to a post by witchunt:

Only from X2 subtended headends being installed in many cabinets, but that probably wasn't what the OP meant anyway.

Now there is something that will have a fair few readers (including myself) googling .

Thanks for that info though. I don't like posting incorrect info.

Is this something relatively new please? Or was it always the case?

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2019/09/a-look...

http://huaweigpon.cz/wp-content/uploads/SmartAX-MA58...

MA5800-X2.

Edited by CarlTSpeak (Fri 01-May-20 20:38:36)

Thanks Carl .

Mark Jackson's article is fairly easy. The Huawei one requires knowledge I don't have, but I can get the gist of it.

What your and witchunt's posts amount to is, in short, that things have indeed moved on since FTTP was first introduced by Openreach.

So it is possible the OP's FTTC cabinet is providing the FTTP service to the village, if it already has FTTC?