In reply to a post by gazzyk1ns:

Yeah, it can't be a rule that "10 cabinets must go live" because some exchanges don't have 10 FTTC cabinets ever scheduled to be built.

It's not a rule. One exchange in my area went AO with only 7 ouit of 14 cabinets live and the main exchange went AO at the beginning of May and still only has 5 cabinets live and also about 50 PCPs that don't have fibre capability yet.

In reply to a post by kitcat:

Ronski

Smaller exchanges are likely to be connected to a bigger parent exchange as child exchanges. So they don't need 10 Cabs to go live as the count will be against the parent exchange.

I presume 10 cabs gives enough scale that ISPs are prepared to pay for the backhaul from the parent to their network. If it was fewer no-one would want to pay for the backhaul as they couldn't get enough customers. I think connectivity is in 1Ge blocks from the OR equipment. You may find that all the Margate / Ramsgate ones come from one parent exchange.

Thing is with my exchange it's parent is a smaller exchange mine is a AMTE what ever that means

In reply to a post by kitcat:

Smaller exchanges are likely to be connected to a bigger parent exchange as child exchanges. So they don't need 10 Cabs to go live as the count will be against the parent exchange.

Quite possible, but the two which are live, went live a week or two apart.

IIRC the leaked spreadsheet would give a different exchange ID to the exchange covered, in this case the names match the corresponding ID. The exchanges are NDTHA, NDBRO & NDRAM

In reply to a post by R0NSKI:

IIRC the leaked spreadsheet would give a different exchange ID to the exchange covered, in this case the names match the corresponding ID. The exchanges are NDTHA, NDBRO & NDRAM

I thought that the original spreadsheet (April last year?) had the exchange that FTTC was serviced from but the December one just had the exchange the PCP was exchange connected to?

When I lived in Bedlington that was definitely true (the first spreadsheet showed this) but this exchange was enabled before the second spreadsheet came out so no longer showed. Current exchange wasnt planned in April and in December shows Ashington on its own so proves nothing!

In reply to a post by R0NSKI:

I'm not so sure about the 10 cabinet thing, I'm monitoring three local exchanges checking if every cabinet is live once a week. Both exchanges went live with 5 cabinets each, and now one has ten and the other eight.

It sort of came from nowhere a few months ago and got taken up and quoted so often that it became established.

Seems very dubious, as has just been posted. I've certainly never seen anything official, or even from a reliable source.

I've got both spreadsheets so given a postcode I could compare the two.

Have look at CT10 2RL, should be NDBRO 11 IIRC

CT10 2RL isn't in April 2011. (Broadstairs cab 11?). It only goes up to phase 7b anyway.

OK, thanks for looking, we're phase 8a.