Ah yes P17! Never actually come across anyone connected to it! Must be being enabled as part of BDUK as it can't have many customers on it.

Just went past, cabinet is stood. It looks huge, not sure if that's because of where it's placed (away from any walls/fences) or if it really is a size bigger than the usual ones.

Just been chatting to contractor working on underground connection box junction Whaley Lane/Thingwall Road - he is blowing yellow fibre strand thru cable tubing - his colleague is further up road towards Irby Village taking fibre further up towards the village , says that the job of connection of fibre is high priority.
Also confirmed that the fibre is coming to Irby Exchange from Arrowebrook Exchange , and then along Whaley Lane and up to Irby Village , says the fine yellow fibre strand will do the whole of area, the blockage in Whaley Lane was causing the hold up, now with new ducting things are moving.
Estimates three weeks for Fibre connection - I'd say a month from previous delays - Xmas has come early

Also saw him on the junction of Whaley and Thingwall, he looked a bit cold with his hood up.

I couldn't see anyone further up the road in Irby village though, maybe he'd finished by then.

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Also saw him on the junction of Whaley and Thingwall, he looked a bit cold with his hood up.

I couldn't see anyone further up the road in Irby village though, maybe he'd finished by then.

He was also trying to stand on brackets to avoid paddling in a foot of water - would have thought a pump might be part of the equipment lol

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Just been chatting to contractor working on underground connection box junction Whaley Lane/Thingwall Road - he is blowing yellow fibre strand thru cable tubing - his colleague is further up road towards Irby Village taking fibre further up towards the village , says that the job of connection of fibre is high priority.
Also confirmed that the fibre is coming to Irby Exchange from Arrowebrook Exchange , and then along Whaley Lane and up to Irby Village , says the fine yellow fibre strand will do the whole of area, the blockage in Whaley Lane was causing the hold up, now with new ducting things are moving.
Estimates three weeks for Fibre connection - I'd say a month from previous delays - Xmas has come early

What did I tell you about where it was coming from? The contractor has basically validated everything I said including the route of the fibre. But yet you completely ignored my previous post where I explained myself and apologised to you.

It's pretty well publicised that BT aren't running the fibre from small or medium exchanges. At once point I think they were only going to have about 25 headends nationwide but it's ended up being higher than that.

In Wirral the headend situation works like this:

Wallasey headend supplies cabinets in just Wallasey
Claughton headend supplies cabinets in Claughton, Mountwood and Birkenhead
Arrowebrook headend supplies cabinets in Arrowebrook, Heswall, Hoylake, Caldy and Irby
Bromborough headend supplies cabinets in Bromborough, Eastham and Neston
Rock Ferry headend supplies cabinets in just Rock Ferry
Ellesmere Port headend supplies cabinets in Ellesmere Port, Hooton and Helsby

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think they were only going to have about 25 headends nationwide but it's ended up being higher than that.

There are hundreds of NGA head ends, your possibly thinking of 21CN/WBC nodes.

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think they were only going to have about 25 headends nationwide but it's ended up being higher than that.

There are hundreds of NGA head ends, your possibly thinking of 21CN/WBC nodes.

Yes, that's why I said it ended up being higher, a lot higher. I definitely saw a PowerPoint slide with the original plans and it was far less. Maybe I was too low with the 25 figure but it was far, far lower than its ended up being.

We have the number of exchanges that exist today because the limitation was how long a copper phone line could be for voice service. That distance could be extended by using thicker copper ... but the economics only work so far.

The new limitation becomes the distance the fibre can work within a passive distribution network.

Rough numbers would be 5-7km for copper and 20km for fibre.

The build pattern then becomes that larger urban areas get an exchange (or more), which can capture the nearby rural areas. The more distant rural areas need their own exchange (for copper) or head-end (for fibre) when they are beyond that distance limitation.

If linear coverage improves 3x-4x, then area coverage becomes 9x - 16x.

The end result, for fibre, would be a set of head-ends for large towns (or bigger) as today, but the rural head-ends would only need to be around a tenth of the density of the current exchanges/concentrators.

Cab 19 has been having some work done to it the last few weeks and a new cabinet has appeared by the old one. I can only guess this is the DSLAM getting ready to enable it for FTTC.