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movinglight
(newbie) Wed 16-Feb-22 16:12:29

Lightspeed Mounting Bracket on Poles in Sheringham Norfolk

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Intrigued to find the following brackets appear overnight on poles in the area:

https://www.pixelstock.com/light.jpg

Perhaps the start of a multi stage process of bringing FTTP to the area, I was wondering if anyone has documented in fine detail the physical stages and processes involved in a typical deployment of FTTP?

I do appreciate it still might be days/months/years away still, though it reminds me of the FTTC development all those years ago and my walks to monitor progress at the cabinets, all a bit nerdy perhaps wink

Stephen

djb61
(newbie) Wed 16-Feb-22 16:42:45

Re: Lightspeed Mounting Bracket on Poles in Sheringham Norfo

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Looks the same bracket as on this site, that says it is a mounting bracket for back to back CBTs which are definitely FTTP deployment. https://www.millsltd.com/default/mills-cbt-back-to-b...
Are there are a lot of properties served from that pole? Would make sense if they need 2 CBTs to give enough ports that a bracket would go up.

threelegs
(member) Wed 16-Feb-22 17:22:19

Re: Lightspeed Mounting Bracket on Poles in Sheringham Norfo

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I think a slightly better fixing method than four pozi screws and washers should be employed though..

movinglight
(newbie) Wed 16-Feb-22 17:55:40

Re: Lightspeed Mounting Bracket on Poles in Sheringham Norfo

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Hi djb61,

Thanks for that, much appreciated. Had an extended walk and saw them on more poles in the area. One pole had 6 lines on it and another 20 lines but the same brackets on both.

Past a few poles without the new brackets but these had a lot of furniture at the top of the pole already (eg an older one off FTTP feed to a couple of care homes and another for the public library).

BuckleZ
(knowledge is power) Wed 16-Feb-22 19:39:20

Re: Lightspeed Mounting Bracket on Poles in Sheringham Norfo

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Quite a few OR ones around my area, for multiple CBTs on busy poles as said above.

BT Full Fibre 500 via ASUS RT-AX88U
IPv4 BQM - IPv6 BQM

Edited by BuckleZ (Wed 16-Feb-22 19:40:25)

Pheasant
(knowledge is power) Thu 17-Feb-22 00:50:09

Re: Lightspeed Mounting Bracket on Poles in Sheringham Norfo

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Openreach fit the same bracket as a means of fixing multiple (12-port) CBTs where there are many premises being served from the same pole.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2021/02/an-unu...

movinglight
(learned) Thu 17-Feb-22 08:49:14

Re: Lightspeed Mounting Bracket on Poles in Sheringham Norfo

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Thanks for that insight.
It got me thinking, I found a number of posts with 6 lines that had the bracket, unless all the small houses were turned into flats the number of lines were unlikely to increase. I wonder if they were told to instal double brackets in case other firms want to also fix fibre equipment to the poles?

For instance BT have said they will provide FTTP by 2026 - presumably the poles will need to carry multiple CBTs? If there were multiple brackets the poles will look pretty ugly....

kitcat
(fountain of knowledge) Thu 17-Feb-22 09:23:12

Re: Lightspeed Mounting Bracket on Poles in Sheringham Norfo

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Pheasant

Wondering if one of our local poles will get two brackets as it has over 36 pairs from it . ( Difficult to count exactly as you tend to lose track.)

witchunt
(fountain of knowledge) Thu 17-Feb-22 10:10:13

Re: Lightspeed Mounting Bracket on Poles in Sheringham Norfo

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There is limit to the amount of hardware that can be attached to a pole for practical and safety reasons. Think it's 5 and that include any existing copper hardware like DPs , block terminals, DACS (LOL), as well as any fibre equipment from Openreach or an altnet. Some are going to need additional poles just to provide space for capacity.

Zarjaz
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Thu 17-Feb-22 12:58:04

Re: Lightspeed Mounting Bracket on Poles in Sheringham Norfo

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It does seem like the rules about loading on the ring head are being let slide. Already with Openreach copper and FTTP on the same DP it gets very busy, especially for those requiring their existing copper pair to be left in situ.

It should also be noted that with all this malarkey attached willy nilly, work, especially protracted work, becomes awkward and uncomfortable very quickly.

Zarjaz

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