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Alucidnation
(regular) Fri 01-Mar-19 19:23:05

Openreach No longer Using Huawei Equipment. Apparently.

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Had engineer number 12 round to today with my ongoing problems and we were chatting generally, and he said that OR will no longer be installing Huawei cabinets, and moving over to Fujitsu.

He also said that the existing Huawei equipment will be removed and replaced. at some point.

Make of that what you will.

Disclaimer: I have no hard evidence of this, just small talk.

RobertoS
(elder) Fri 01-Mar-19 19:47:29

Re: Openreach No longer Using Huawei Equipment. Apparently.

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I have strong doubts about that. I could believe it if it were the ECIs they were replacing.

We know that core Huawei network components have been being replaced gradually since 2006, so maybe he has just picked up a garbled story.

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MrSaffron
(staff) Fri 01-Mar-19 19:47:43

Re: Openreach No longer Using Huawei Equipment. Apparently.

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A lot less VDSL2 cabinets are being installed and never seen a Fujitsu VDSL2 cabinet in the wild yet

What Openreach has declared is core network will not be using Huawei kit - and the VDSL2 cabinets are not core.

Replacing 50,000+ cabinets will cost a fair chunk of money that am sure would mean it would have been mentioned in financials due to the impact on costs/revenue i.e. replacing these creates no extra revenue

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Alucidnation
(regular) Fri 01-Mar-19 20:06:14

Re: Openreach No longer Using Huawei Equipment. Apparently.

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Ah ok, so it wasn't all just hot air.

He did also mumble something along the lines of because it being Korean but thats probably BS.

Must admit, i did struggle to agree about replacing all the existing cabinets.

Surely once FTTN or FTTP is up and running, the local cabinets would be no longer needed?

MrSaffron
(staff) Fri 01-Mar-19 20:45:13

Re: Openreach No longer Using Huawei Equipment. Apparently.

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Given not all providers who sell over FTTC sell a FTTP product yet, ripping out VDSL2 cabinets is a long way away

Huawei is nothing to do with Korea, it is a Chinese company

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Alucidnation
(regular) Fri 01-Mar-19 20:48:20

Re: Openreach No longer Using Huawei Equipment. Apparently.

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I did wonder that but wasn't 100% sure.

smile

Zarjaz
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Fri 01-Mar-19 20:48:46

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Fibbing at best.

Zarjaz - "Yeah, well, that's just like, your opinion, man"

witchunt
(experienced) Fri 01-Mar-19 21:44:51

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Probably just a little confused.com

Alucidnation
(regular) Fri 01-Mar-19 22:22:29

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(deleted) Sun 03-Mar-19 17:26:48

Re: Openreach No longer Using Huawei Equipment. Apparently.

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In reply to a post by Zarjaz:
Fibbing at best.

Indeed. My understanding of it is that some of the core network stuff has Huawei code running on it, which can be updated remotely. I don�t know if this includes the handover equipment you�ll have seen in the headend that the fibre cabinets connect to.

I�ve been told that the fibre cabinets don�t have any code running on them, or if they do it�s not Huawei�s code and can�t be updated by them. That�s just what I�ve heard and could be wrong.

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