Nokia and Huawei are the only ones I have seen so far

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

@witchunt do you have a view on numbers of SHE that Openreach have deployed to date? Even just ballpark numbers.

TIA

According to this recent article it's somewhere around 100 SHE's nationwide.

Openreach told Silicon UK that its engineers have now deployed around 100 individual ‘SHEs’, across the UK, connecting up around 160,000 homes and businesses that would otherwise have been beyond commercial reach.

This has helped Openreach avoid the need to build over 1,262 km of new fibre cabling or ‘spine’.

Edited by j0hn83 (Mon 25-Sep-23 13:05:56)

Cheers John - I'm guessing the article is not totally accurate/up to date as @witchunt noted above that there were "several hundred" in existence.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Cheers John - I'm guessing the article is not totally accurate/up to date as @witchunt noted above that there were "several hundred" in existence.

With all due respect to witchunt (who is indeed a wealth of knowledge) I'm guessing it's accurate. The figure fits with that of other respectable media outlets.

https://www.commsbusiness.co.uk/content/news/openrea...

Around 100 individual SHEs have now been deployed across the UK, connecting up around 160,000 homes and businesses that would otherwise have been beyond commercial reach.

https://telecoms.com/523016/openreach-shaves-10m-off...

Openreach said last Thursday that it has deployed around 100 SHEs across the UK, connecting 160,000 premises that would otherwise be too costly to serve with FTTP.

Openreach briefed the "around 100" themselves at the start of August.
Can't see them having installed another 200+ in that time seeing as they have taken a few years to hit 100

Edited by j0hn83 (Wed 27-Sep-23 17:46:02)

Do these articles numbers add up?

100 SHEs across the UK, connecting 160,000 premises

then they say

a single SHE location has the capacity to connect up to 1,000 additional homes and businesses

So if we multiple 100 SHEs each one having the capacity for 1,000 properties how do we get to 160,000 properties?

If it is 1,000 per SHE and they are able to reach 160,000 properties then isn't the true number 160 SHEs installed?

Yes. As witchunt points out you can have multiple SHE's in a single pod.

In reply to a post by j0hn83:

Yes. As witchunt points out you can have multiple SHE's in a single pod.

I am guessing there are more than 100 SHEs out there so the press release is wrong, they probably mean 100 SHE locations which contain a total of 160ish SHEs

Edit: even my numbers above don't add up, if 1,000 properties per SHE location there must be 160 SHE locations to make up the 160,000 properties so there must be several hundred SHE's installed at a guess.

Edited by PCJM40 (Wed 27-Sep-23 16:51:43)

In reply to a post by PCJM40:

In reply to a post by j0hn83:

Yes. As witchunt points out you can have multiple SHE's in a single pod.

I am guessing there are more than 100 SHEs out there so the press release is wrong, they probably mean 100 SHE locations which contain a total of 160ish SHEs

It's just semantics.
Openreach often site the number of locations. Around 100 SHE's locations.

An example of this is there are around 1200 Head-End exchanges but each 1 can have multiple Head-Ends inside.
I don't see Openreach writing the number of individual Head-Ends anywhere.

ISPReview quote identical figures

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/08/openre...

Engineers have now deployed around 100 individual ‘SHEs’ across the UK, connecting up around 160,000 premises (homes and businesses) that would otherwise have been beyond commercial reach, and avoiding the need to build over 1,262 km of new fibre cabling or ‘spine’.

Edit: just saw your edit.
It's not 1000 premises per location. It's 1024 per SHE and you can fit more than 1 in each pod.
157 SHE's can do just over 160,000 homes which could be achieved from 78 sites assuming a max of 2 SHE's per pod.

Edited by j0hn83 (Wed 27-Sep-23 16:59:51)

Thats fine then, so witchunt's answer about how many SHEs (not locations) wasn't wrong then as it would take more than 100 SHE's to get to 160,000 properties.

Edit: based on the corrections you're having to make for their press release its clear their press release is .......

Edited by PCJM40 (Wed 27-Sep-23 17:09:51)

In reply to a post by PCJM40:

Thats fine then, so witchunt's answer about how many SHEs (not locations) wasn't wrong then as it would take more than 100 SHE's to get to 160,000 properties.

That's not several hundred though is it.

No idea why it's so important. I don't think witchunt was intending on being deadly accurate and was more than likely guessing based on the number he's come across and extrapolating that across the country.

Edited by j0hn83 (Wed 27-Sep-23 17:10:46)