What am I looking at ?

I'm in an FTTC only village with no signs of FTTP coming anytime soon but from my office window I can see the Cabinet and this morning there were some gentlemen pulling out 2 of these large black cylinders which I thought were aggregation nodes but now I'm not sure.

Can anyone advise what they are ?

Pics

Si

Edited by BigladUK (Mon 14-Feb-22 15:14:07)

Lots of Openreach underground kit has a black plastic waterproof enclosure.
It could be as simple as a waterproof joint enclosure for the copper pairs.

Without taking detailed pics you will likely never know.

Any better ?

It's fibre equipment at least. That's probably the best answer you are going to get.

It could be an Aggregation Node, a Splitter Node or a simple track joint enclosure.
They all pretty much look the same

Thanks, might as well do a full survey for FTTPoD then if I'm super close to something, might get the new FTTPoD "something close by" fixed pricing lol

Thanks

Si

If it's a simple track joint then you wouldn't be eligible for the near network trial. If it's pretty much anything else then you would be.

The way I like to think of it is if you can't afford to gamble £250+vat on an FTTPoD survey then you probably can't afford FTTPoD.

Great. I’ll ask them what it is but I agree, £250+vat is deffo worth a punt

Thanks

Si

Could be a simple EAD install. If you have a postcode I'll see if there's a T node.

Thanks

mK44 1pb

Both are fibre track nodes (joints) by the looks of it