New telephone pole and equipment.

neilmcl

We've been having all our telephone poles replaced recently with new ones and the last few days engineers have been coming back and forth adding new equipment. Any ideas on what the new equipment could be? The box on the top right was a new thing they installed today.

EssexExile

Probably just connectors. I doubt there's power up there so it won't be anything complicated.

neilmcl

Somebody elsewhere mentioned FTTP, I'm wondering if those cables hanging further down are going to be used in a cabinet somewhere they've yet to install.

Mister_G

The box on the right is an FTTP splitter (fibre manifold)

JJ_Egan

As above  FTTP  splitter . Two nodes in use at my pole only so far .

neilmcl

JJ_Egan said:

As above  FTTP  splitter . Two nodes in use at my pole only so far .

How does it all connect. I assume the cable hanging down from the splitters (there's actually two there) is the fibre cable in which case how is this linked up to the fibre in the cabinet which is a good way down the road, will they digging up the road? Also how will the nodes be connected to the properties that require it?

donnac2558

They did this to the telegraph pole across from me last year.   It made a strange hum until they finished the work but you could only hear it when near the pole.   No, they did not dig up the road.  And no they did not put any new connections to the houses only working on the pole and making a small hole at the bottom of the pole which they tarmacked over when they finished.

Browntoa

neilmcl said:

JJ_Egan said:

As above  FTTP  splitter . Two nodes in use at my pole only so far .

How does it all connect. I assume the cable hanging down from the splitters (there's actually two there) is the fibre cable in which case how is this linked up to the fibre in the cabinet which is a good way down the road, will they digging up the road? Also how will the nodes be connected to the properties that require it?

Standard cable ducting to pole for the fibre , standard dropwire setup from pole to the property just using fibre instead of copper.

JJ_Egan

As above .

My area rollout started at the exchange  .

neilmcl

They're out again today, this time they're rolling out cable from this pole's location all the way up to the top of the road to another telegraph pole and there's also some cones further down the road and round the corner where the cabinet is situated. Very interesting to watch.

Mister_G

Look on the bright side - you'll soon be able to get FTTP!  Most of us on here just wish!