Anyone know what these pods are?

Hi all

Openreach have been running loads of fibre in to ducting around my town (Tenby) and I noticed them installing these pods yesterday:

https://postimg.cc/gallery/1qh8b8S

Anyone know what they are? The Openreach Fibre When and Where site says they are installing full fibre (1000Mbps it says) within the next 12 months, so I'm assuming it is to do with that, however, these look like GFast pods though to me. Thought they weren't installing that anymore.

If it is Gfast, my copper is around 600m in length, even though the cab is only 100m from my house (it takes several detours apparently!!), so GFast isn't going to do anything for me is it?

They were putting loads of fibre into the chamber in front of the cabinet in the pic with a hedge in it (that's my cab). Would they need to run any extra fibre if it was going to be GFast??

In reply to a post by WelshWArrior:

They were putting loads of fibre into the chamber in front of the cabinet in the pic with a hedge in it (that's my cab). Would they need to run any extra fibre if it was going to be GFast??

A subtended OLT headend - basically the FTTP optical line termination (headend) is situated inside the street cabinet rather than in a big BT handover exchange building, many miles away.

Used by Openreach where they have decided it's more cost effective/efficient to use this method of FTTP deployment often or not in sparser rural type settings.

Thanks for the reply. I have literally just been reading up on SHEs and thought that might be what it is!

No worries. More here for any interested folks:

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/08/openre...

How do you tell that's not just a VDSL expansion pod?

In reply to a post by candlerb:

How do you tell that's not just a VDSL expansion pod?

That red/yellow sticker looks at odds with that theory to me

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/assets/images/news-20...

mini olt in the field via tbb 😁

All pods are DC powered from the DSLAM cabinet, the sticker is there due to the possibility they could become live, though unlikely

Edited by witchunt (Sat 16-Sep-23 17:23:35)

In reply to a post by Taras:

mini olt in the field

Wonder where the handover exchange is then for Tenby, must be some distance to need "this"

I would guess at Haverfordwest. The SHE's serve 2 purposes. They extend the distance from the HE exchange , and they also reduce the number of fibres . Many are used purely for the latter which is why some are located relaitively close to HE exchanges in urban areas to save on new fibre spines.

Edited by witchunt (Sat 16-Sep-23 17:30:24)