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Community Fibre cabinet layout?

Jimmy8

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Purely for nerdish purposes, I wondered if anyone had any photos or even videos of the layout of CF cabinets? This - for Full Fibre - was really informative, and I assume CF is quite similar:

I'm particularly interested to know what kind of battery back-up CF cabinets might have. The chap in that video talks of those cabs being specified to last 5 hours at full tilt, which makes battery back-up at the ONT end worthwhile. If it's an hour or so, I'm not so sure!
 
As Community Fibre also deploy PON based services, it'll be an almost identical setup. Split ratios may differ, along with equipment suppliers but the architecture will be broadly the same.

I'm not sure if it is a huge consideration but suppliers are also unlikely to stray from the tried and tested, as it makes them a more attractive proposition for consolidation, as integration into another network is likely to be easier.
 
Within London I think CF might use OR exchanges for hosting equipment as FTTP can travel upto 8km or more without requiring repeaters. I’ve not seen any CF cabinets in my area.
 
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Within London I think CF might use OR exchanges for hosting equipment as FTTP can travel upto 8km or more without requiring repeaters. I’ve not seen any CF cabinets in my area.
Pretty sure CF use cabinets. Source: their former CEO.
 
Makes sense if a single cabinet can serve 15K+ properties over XGS-PON. However my local virgin media cabinet is constantly being vandalised and the doors always open, hopefully CF cabinets are located in secure locations.
 
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Makes sense if a single cabinet can serve 15K+ properties over XGS-PON. However my local virgin media cabinet is constantly being vandalised and the doors always open, hopefully CF cabinets are located in secure locations.
The CF cabinets in my area are located similarly to BT cabinets on footpaths. Some are on private land where they have a deal with large apartment complexes.

This does not concern me as while the cabinets are frequently 'decorated' with spray paint, vomit and presumably other bodily fluids they are always locked up and the contents (so far) unaffected.
 
For comparison, Cityfibre has cabinets but mostly they're passive, so no battery backup required.

Looking at the cabinet itself may give you clues. If it has vents and a yellow zap sticker then there's power inside. Also you can listen to see if it hums :-)
 
Community Fibre use cabinets, here is one:

I believe Hyperoptic also use cabinets though I've not seen one in person in areas I know to have been recently built so this might have changed.

According to the guy at Lit Fibre planning my area, they put their kit in the exchange.
 
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