And given not many extra fibres are blown to the cabs, the issues Bill raised are there too.

But from what your saying again it depends on the implementation.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Also means either further work to do in a few years, or committing to keeping the street furniture with largely redundant DSLAM once VDSL2 is dead

Andrew I�m pretty sure they don�t actually mean they�re jointing spare fibres inside the VDSL cabinet itself and then back out to an FTTP node. It�ll be done in the jointbox in the pavement in front of the cab. They just mean spares in the fibre cable that was put in to service the VDSL cabinet.

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In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Also means either further work to do in a few years, or committing to keeping the street furniture with largely redundant DSLAM once VDSL2 is dead

Andrew I�m pretty sure they don�t actually mean they�re jointing spare fibres inside the VDSL cabinet itself and then back out to an FTTP node. It�ll be done in the jointbox in the pavement in front of the cab. They just mean spares in the fibre cable that was put in to service the VDSL cabinet.

My understanding was neither.

A mini-OLT would be installed inside the FTTC cabinet. Specifically the Huawei MA5800-X2.

Spare fibres can be be used but the whole point of it is it extends the GPON signal further to reach properties too far to receive GPON from the Head-End OLT.

It would only borrow a power supply from the FTTC DSLAM.
No other connections to the DSLAM would be necessary.

It could go underground but it still needs a power supply.

If that is the case why does press release say otherwise

"The company is also trialling �remote nodes� � where fibre-optic cables can be built out from specially-adapted existing green roadside cabinets. Specialised broadband-boosting equipment installed inside the cabinet enables full fibre connections to extend by more than one and a half times their current reach, with the capacity to connect more than 1,000 premises."

If it is just the footway box then no need to say cabinets are adapted since they are just intercepting the fibre bundle and splicing into a spare in the footway box.

The boost stuff is definitely in the cabinet as using power and DSLAM to boost light signal, the remote nodes is the one where the question is raised.

They seem to work well on my oft travelled bit of the M3 ... the usual issues are pinheads who sit in the 2nd lane, leaving others loathe to undertake.

Fair enough then. I missed the bit about it needing boosting entirely.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

They seem to work well on my oft travelled bit of the M3 ... the usual issues are pinheads who sit in the 2nd lane, leaving others loathe to undertake.

Highyway code rule 264!

Drives me mad.

Two modes...

The boost mode nicking some power/dslam rack space

The reuse of fibre which is in its blown fibre tube in the cabinet and adding a small splitter

Small headache on the M3 smart motorway bit as the left lane is often marked as the exit lane for the next junction.

Yes, for a mile prior to the junction, sometimes a tad more, like 4 to 4A where it�s all the way, but still doesn�t excuse it.