Sorry - so, this map is of boxes that are directly connected to the exchange?

Yes, except for P1, P2, P3.

Makes sense. Well, at least it's all happening. It's quite a mammoth task, after all! Miles and miles of fibre, old drainage channels to put it in, most of which won't have been opened for decades.

If your exchange only serves 540 people it is highly unlikely it would have any equipment relating to FTTC in it. The fibre cabinets will be connected to a handover node in another larger exchange a few miles away.

In reply to a post by Icaras:

If your exchange only serves 540 people it is highly unlikely it would have any equipment relating to FTTC in it. The fibre cabinets will be connected to a handover node in another larger exchange a few miles away.

Kingsbridge (WWKNGB) will likely be where the handover node is installed - That's why they are laying the fibre to Slapton .

Edit: If you're interested according to roadwork maps, they have got up to Chillington so far and are moving towards Slapton.

Edited by chris6273 (Sun 17-Aug-14 07:40:22)

One side of my exchange they have run the fibre on the poles, the other side its all in pipes to the village so they spent days jetting all the pipework before the engineers even opened the manholes. They installed a new cabinet (presumably for people on the old Exchanges lines) a foot outside the exchange door digging/removing then restoring the road/ground/wall/6' bank back up having put in power cable and fibre. Then digging new fibre routes out to new poles to add additional cabinets (going from 2-5) a mile away in each direction. How much of this was essential for fibre, for 21CN and how much was due to a sensible rationalisation of the whole network is anyone's guess. They've added some houses nearby to my cabinet (approx 500yrds away) that were previously connected to the same exchange via a cabinet in the next village a good 1/1/2 miles away.

Edited by deleted (Sun 17-Aug-14 15:13:08)

Well they have visibly run fibre into the exchange and from the exchange out to some (and in due course the rest) of the cabinets. We're many miles from another larger exchange.

In reply to a post by Garlic:

One side of my exchange they have run the fibre on the poles, the other side its all in pipes to the village

I was under the impression fibre couldn't be put on poles, as the wind/movement could easily snap the glass inside. Obviously not!

In reply to a post by chris6273:

In reply to a post by Icaras:

If your exchange only serves 540 people it is highly unlikely it would have any equipment relating to FTTC in it. The fibre cabinets will be connected to a handover node in another larger exchange a few miles away.

Kingsbridge (WWKNGB) will likely be where the handover node is installed - That's why they are laying the fibre to Slapton .

Precisely.

In reply to a post by chris6273:

Edit: If you're interested according to roadwork maps, they have got up to Chillington so far and are moving towards Slapton.

Yeah, thanks. Rather pathetically, roadworks.org has become my morning go-to site to check on progress. Also, for anyone's interest, my experience with it is that the dates are hugely conservative.

What you think they are doing and what they are actually doing are different! There is absolutely no way those fibre cabinets will be connected to a tiny exchange that only serves 540 people. They will run the fibre 10 or 20 miles to a large exchange if they have to it is still far cheaper than putting handover nodes in loads of little exchanges.