Ah yes.....my bad. Was early

After a flurry of activity it's all gone quiet again.....and still no signs of a cab for me

In reply to a post by pete_thomson:

After a flurry of activity it's all gone quiet again.....and still no signs of a cab for me

Last week a cab near me was being worked on again. I thought it was completed but I guess not, as they dug the road up again and had their large reel of fibre cable out. I still have high hopes for Rustington anyway, but have noticed several cabs in Littlehampton don't have their FTTC partner yet.

Isn't Rustington due the end of next month?

Its only a holding date, the exchange and others may well slip into the next 3 month holding slot which will be end of December.

Proably find if its not live before the end of September then will likely go live in the first few weeks of October, with more cabs coming live.

I appreciate that, but both Rustington and Littlehampton were due in June, but at the end of June Littlehampton slipped to Dec and Rustington to Sept.

From Worthing down to Chichester Openreach are working on 12 exchange areas- the smaller exchange cabinets will be connected to the larger parent exchanges.
With estimated go live dates of September/December 2012, so its not hard to see why their are delays in the area since their is so much work going on, may even see December 2012/March 2013 dates.

In reply to a post by ccxo:

The smaller exchange cabinets will be connected to the larger parent exchanges.

I'm a little lost here. Are you saying the smaller exchange cabinets, or the cabinets of the smaller exchanges?? Is that why Bognor, Chichester and Littlehampton are set to Dec and the rest are Sept?

I should have been a bit more clearer, the larger exchanges will be enabled for FTTC, while fibre from these will connect to the smaller exchange cabinets, providing the FTTC service to the smaller exchange area.

As for the dates their only holding dates and are very likely to change, it all depends on the amount of work left in each exchange area.

That makes much more sense.....kinda.

Why would they do that as that means running multiple fibres for miles back to the larger exchanges - I would have thought it'd be easier to aggregate the fibres back to the nearest exchange and run backhaul to there.

Also, how comes they think that the smaller exchanges might be ready sooner when surely it's more difficult to get them working than the cab's native to the exchanges serving the fibre?

The mind boggles.