FTTP...... but how?

vernall

Maybe a silly question but here goes

i live on a housing estate.....openreach have installed new fibre cable and cabinets along the main road and a few odd ones on the estate, which i pressure when you take FTTP they tap into. i live approx 200yds from one of the new FTTP green cabinets.....if i were to take up SKYs offer of FTTP how would the fibre cable get the 200yds from the new cabinet to my house? dig up 200yds of road and path? there are no overhead telephone poles btw

darkcloudi

They usually push the cable through (underground), I live on a new estate and thats what OpenReach did at mine. We don't have overhead telephone poles to so assuming your cables are underground too and they will come out from the same place as the old copper cable.

iniltous

Openreach FTTP doesn’t ‘use’ street cabinets , are you sure this is Openreach equipment ?, there are many fibre network providers , some use Openreach duct and poles , some install their own infrastructure and some use a mixture, OR ‘Nodes’ ( aggregation and splitter) are underground, no FTTP kit from Openreach is fitted in street cabinets , that’s FTTC , other providers may use cabinets as they don’t have to ‘copy’ OR method of delivering service

brewerdave

IF they are FTTC cabinets , then they will be very near to the "old" POTS cabinets, usually with a newly tarmacked trench connecting the two. 

vernall

Sorry, my mistake, it was Cityfibre that installed the new fibre not Openreach