I guess we will have to see what transpires when they start digging holes again in March.

Would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall for the planning for this - isn�t the Huawei all in one cabinet good for 96 lines?

For 20 properties wonder how the costs for this verses FTTP added up. Are they factoring in any excess costs for FTTP against the fact it won�t need revisiting again in the future?

Standby for new cabinet disappearing if you�re right and there�s no viable power supply found and the plan switching back to FTTP....

Upto 128 lines on an AIO cabinet.
They will only install 1 x 32 port line card if there's only 20 properties.
The line cards are only a fraction of the cost though.

So, a lot of infrastructure to install for 20 lines, probably will only have a maximum lifespan of 15 years at a guess? Is there a design for a g.fast upgrade for an all in one yet?

In reply to a post by AL66:

Would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall for the planning for this - isn�t the Huawei all in one cabinet good for 96 lines?

For 20 properties wonder how the costs for this verses FTTP added up. Are they factoring in any excess costs for FTTP against the fact it won�t need revisiting again in the future?

When I saw the hole, I had a funny feeling that the thing they unearthed that looked like a cable or ducting was actually the water supply pipe. Without actually getting in the hole and giving it a rap with a screwdriver, it's hard to tell for sure, but it's certainly in the right place for the water. It would be a staggering cock up if it was.

It's been a funny carry on from the beginning, out of the 40 properties in the village, 20 properties get 300Mb FTTP, then our pole is replaced and looks prepped for FTTP... then the local BDUK tells us that the remaining 20 properties are getting a cabinet.

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Standby for new cabinet disappearing if you�re right and there�s no viable power supply found and the plan switching back to FTTP....

Has that actually been known to happen?

Edited by sparky_paul (Fri 23-Feb-18 14:44:03)

I believe so if the costs to get the power to the cab turn out to be excessive. Hard to see why the AIO FTTC cab would be cheaper than doing the job properly for 20 premises with FTTP, especially as at some point in the future they�ll have to be back to do FTTP anyway (unless we�re going to demote ourselves to 3rd world status). Openreach seems to be the home of strange decisions!

In reply to a post by AL66:

I believe so if the costs to get the power to the cab turn out to be excessive. Hard to see why the AIO FTTC cab would be cheaper than doing the job properly for 20 premises with FTTP, especially as at some point in the future they�ll have to be back to do FTTP anyway (unless we�re going to demote ourselves to 3rd world status). Openreach seems to be the home of strange decisions!

Well my road and side roads have all got FTTP hardware installed along with all fibres going from the splitter node into all the FibreDP hardware and have done since 2011 - 2012, sadly BT have decided to install FTTC for the lower part of my road and lower side roads.

So yeah they make strange decisions LOL
Maybe for my area there was a logical reason for the change.

Paul

In reply to a post by sparky_paul:

When I saw the hole, I had a funny feeling that the thing they unearthed that looked like a cable or ducting was actually the water supply pipe. Without actually getting in the hole and giving it a rap with a screwdriver, it's hard to tell for sure, but it's certainly in the right place for the water. It would be a staggering cock up if it was.

That cable looks like armoured mains cable, where the outer case is metal, we have them round here.
But yeah, they do look like water pipes LOL

Paul

Logical? Openreach? Unlikely!

In reply to a post by PaulKirby:

That cable looks like armoured mains cable, where the outer case is metal, we have them round here.
But yeah, they do look like water pipes LOL

The problem is, I don't really understand why there would be an underground electricity cable there at all, and certainly not that size. All the electricity supplies in the village are overhead T-T, and the only thing on that side of the road that may be fed underground from a pole is a small sewage treatment pumping station.

There are two problems with that scenario, the cable would be taking a very strange route to get there, and if that was a SWA cable they unearthed, it would be far too big.

However, I do know for sure that there is a black alkathene water supply pipe. just in the verge, and roughly that size. It was replaced about 25 years ago.