The fibre headend exchange will almost certainly not be your small one. Small ones get the fibre for their FTTC cabinets routed to larger exchanges possibly miles away precisely because installing all the infrastructure for them in the small one would be uneconomic, and probably there would be insufficient space anyway.

So plough on with the suggested chase-ups .

Oh - and! If you are not the only business in the locality in this position, club together for the requests! That could swing it. Even one or two might.

Edited by RobertoS (Sun 23-Apr-17 15:23:12)

Ahh I see thanks, I didn't realise that was how it worked.

Cool, thanks for the information, I'll keep chasing then, we actually have at least 3 IT professionals running companies in the village, so there's some more possible demand there.

(Not replying to @RobertoS specifically; just a general observation)

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Bear in mind the distances are from the nearest aggregation point to you, which will be underground with probably either a two or three-lid chamber.

Remember that aggregation nodes aren't in a 1:1 ratio with cabinets.

We don't know what the ratio actually is, but we do have a couple of clues...

1) Assuming a GPON split of 32, An aggregation node can handle 12 splitter nodes or 1536 subscribers. That suggests it can handle the lines from anywhere between 2 large PCPs and more than 10 small PCPs.

2) Over a year ago, we had a hint that the ratio within BDUK was around 6:1. BDUK tends to have dealt with cabinets around half the size of the original rollout, so the ratio might have been 3:1 there.
http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/t/4460700-re-...

A village with 1,000 homes might merit an ag node. Much smaller than this, and it might not.

The Openreach Accepting Orders PDF says WSLOD has some FTTC and some FTTP but no FTTPoD (FOD in that list). However, especially if there is already some nearby FTTP, it might be that Openreach are prepared to open up FTTPoD in the area if requested by a Communications Provider such as FluidOne. You can only keep chasing.

Ahh that's interesting info., thanks, and encouraging that there's at least mention of FTTP at the exchange. I'll try chasing Openreach/FluidOne with that see if I can get any further.

As I mentioned in another post, there appears to FTTP planned for some postcodes.

yeah I'll have to see if I can find out some more about where they're planning that for. I'd be surprised, but pleasently so, to see standard FTTP around here, but we do have a couple of locations that I guess might warrant it...

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

When you use https://www.homeandwork.openreach.co.uk/when-can-i-g...

That page returns nothing for me for any post code or phone number in either IE or firefox. FF gives a big empty space where something should be, IE doesn't even show the box to put a postcode or number into...

Not a good start - the providers website that won't render/work on 2 major browsers... (No I don't have any others to test)

Just tried

Safari
IE11
Chrome
Firefox

and its working. Which versions you using?