Thank you.

Just to update

I walked the route today following line to pole etc and the 2 nearest poles already have the equipment on them & the fibre rolled up at the bottom of the 2 poles. So reading the roadworks they now need to one 100m down the road to the furthest pole & then connect to the 2 poles with the fibre stuff already on.

At least it means it should be happening that the stuff is there waiting for the spine works (which looks like it's going to the cabinet interestingly after spare saw that article about using spare fttc fibre not that it matters)

Fibre on our pole

At least it means it should be happening that the stuff is there waiting for the spine works (which looks like it's going to the cabinet interestingly after spare saw that article about using spare fttc fibre not that it matters)

Fibre coming from the PCP direction doesn't mean they are using spare fibre from the FTTC cabinet.

Fibre usually comes from the direction of the cabinet.
There's ducting between the Agg Node and the cabinet already.
The ducting branches out to homes from the cabinet.

Many of the FTTP builds go from Agg Node to cabinet, then cabinet to home (without touching the cabinet).

There's probably not ducting from the Agg Node to where the fibre is going so they go via the cabinet.

If there's a spare fibre at the FTTC cabinet that won't be needed and that's all that would be required for FTTP build in question then OpenReach could indeed be using that method.

Hope your FTTP install goes well.

Edited by j0hn83 (Sat 19-Oct-19 12:46:03)

I never said it did mean that & I said it didn't matter anyway I just said it was interesting given the previous article esp given as both projects are BDUK fttc as a stepping stone so to speak.

It's more likely that it's coming from there either as spare fibre installed when the fttc cab was built or that the ducting runs to that point anyway (well obviously it doesn't directly as the fttc cab is a fair distance from the old copper cab on the other side of a busy A road & many metres further on but I'm sure you know what I mean) seeing as the only thing the other side of that point is the North Sea or marshes.

Edited by deleted (Sat 19-Oct-19 13:39:14)