In reply to a post by pyarwood:

I agree most MDUs would get a seperate ONT but openreach can supply a multiport ONT which is what they line refers to and NOT CBT capacity.

In other words, individual dwellings *could* have their own multiport ONTs. (For example, if they ordered two services at the same location, e.g. one for home and one for business use) It's uncommon.

Under no circumstances I'm aware of would a single multiport ONT in Openreach's network be used to serve multiple premises within an MDU.

Exactly, it wouldn't happen as it would be a support nightmare, you can't have the device that is part of the ISPs first-line checks locked away in a landlord's utility cupboard.

Would be nice if it exposed status information on a VLAN over SNMP or similar to the router so that information like the optical network being down or the ONT not authorised could be passed on, but I guess this is the world of cost engineering.

Edited by jpm (Tue 25-Jun-24 20:08:23)