In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

In reply to a post by jren207:

Here in Scunthorpe, we only have Huawei cabinets installed. No ECI.

228 literally everywhere except for a couple nearer the centre of town that are 128.

Although I seem to have been given an ECI modem even though I am connected to a 228.

how long ago was your cabinet installed?

I am curious as I believed most new areas to be ECI.

But I guess it might be better to suggest new 'exchange areas' ECI but if a new area within an existing Huawei 'exchange area' is enabled they get Huawei cabinets?

My cabinet was installed July last year (lucky to be in the first batch), but about two weeks ago six more 228 were installed in the latest wave of installations.

My cabinet: http://goo.gl/CZeTXX
Smaller literally outside exchange: http://goo.gl/SLFzrT

Edited by jren207 (Wed 18-Sep-13 15:47:07)

The just outside the exchange is probably to handle exchange only lines close to the exchange

You are probably correct. Small Medium & Large, with a tick box on the checklist when the initial site survey is done.

Openreach may shock me by, wisely, fully loading the cabinet they're installing here off the bat though I suspect it'll be built with 2 x 48 ports available and 100 tie pairs as per.

Edited by deleted (Wed 18-Sep-13 20:00:29)

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

I am curious as I believed most new areas to be ECI.

In Battle, E Sussex, Openreach are just rolling out fibre at the moment and they are installing the big Huawei cabinets.

and the entire exchange previously had no cabinets right?

if so that puts my theory to bed. When I got activated it seemed everyone was reporting ECI only which is where that came from.

Of course with the possibility that vectoring is going to be more expensive to enable on ECI cabinets, this could also mean BT are favouring Huawei again for that reason.

Yep, no cabinets at all.

From what I understand vectoring on ECI kit loses half the ports using line card level vectoring plus the complication of having to have all the vectored connections in the same cable bundle.

The way round would be to replace the M41 MSAN's with V41's which use system-level vectoring so get round the problem with multiple cable bundles but then there is the cost. Never really understood why Openreach didn't specify V41's from the start, I don't think they were planning to offer ADSL from the cabinets.

Saw BT Openreach installed big large Huawei cabinet in other area this morning. Look like the rest of our areas had the same large Huawei cabinets (probably to do with exchange support it) still no cabinet in my street yet.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

Of course with the possibility that vectoring is going to be more expensive to enable on ECI cabinets, this could also mean BT are favouring Huawei again for that reason.

It certainly look likely.

Well with your nick, your not going to get FTTC.