Infill cabinets must have direct E side to the MDF so that they can be given an accurate Cabinet Assigned Loss (CAL) value. They cannot be routed as secondary cabinets.

Thanks . I was surprised that it was fed from the existing PCP, but wasn�t in a position to argue on that point, given the detail supplied. I was only certain over the fibre-optic feed.

Do the normal and email me [email protected]

Remind me in email an affected postcode and will then pester Openreach to see what the delay is.

Oh yes they can! Believe me, im a Openreach Engineer for a year now. The First PCP with the pressurised E side cables from the Exchnage is the Primary Connection Point, and the infill All-In-One cabinet that is situated further down the D side of the network (Grease filled cables) is the SCP, Secondary Connection Point.

Edited by 8skellerns (Sat 10-Mar-18 16:06:45)

Listen to what witchunt is saying .......

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No they don�t, they can be fed from existing PCP�s, I can name a lot of exchanges and cabinets that have this topology.

Don't forget we/witchunt are/is talking AIO FTTC cabinets. It doesn't matter what the topology of the E-side PSTN feed is. It is the fact that it has a fibre feed from wherever that necessitates it being classified as a PCP.

The feed may well follow the same route (not routing) except physically bypass the original PCP.

Whether it was previously the site of an SCP, which in the case of the one in this thread seems unlikely, is irrelevant. The OP hasn't claimed there was an SCP for the lines in his locality.

Edited by RobertoS (Sun 11-Mar-18 21:17:19)

What you are talking about is out of your hat.

Nobody is going to open up a mainside cable and fit a dozen airblocks and straps into the dside cables to physically bypass a cab.

They certainly cut away the original E sides to (I think) 14 in Caversham then turned what were 14/1 and 14/2 into �full� cabs ......