ColloquiumJames
Member
Hello, I live in a small village that had a large barn conversion about 2 km outside the main populated area.
To service these new houses, Openreach strung a new 36 core fibre overhead along the lane.
As the fibre passes the exiting houses, splitters have been installed, but no CBTs.
There are enough splitters to service the existing houses.
A further new development of five houses was built on a lane perpendicular to the main lane. This time overhead fibre was ran out from one of the existing splitters past existing houses to the new builds. Splitters and CBTs were fitted along this part of the lane.
As a community, we've been told that only the cores that serve the two new builds have been made live as there is capacity issues at the head/exchange side.
We are looking at a community Fibre project to bring the required CBTs to the main lane using voucher top ups.
The initial quotes from Openreach seem incredibly high, but they cite the exchange capacity as the reason.
We've not had a detailed cost breakdown yet.
Should providing the back end capacity head equipment be within the scope of our quote?
From what I can gather, if someone on the perpendicular lane did a fibre on demand request, because there is a CBT a metre outside their window, this would be cost capped with no head costs. Is this not the case for community Fibre?
Any help or advice from others in similar situation would be great!
To service these new houses, Openreach strung a new 36 core fibre overhead along the lane.
As the fibre passes the exiting houses, splitters have been installed, but no CBTs.
There are enough splitters to service the existing houses.
A further new development of five houses was built on a lane perpendicular to the main lane. This time overhead fibre was ran out from one of the existing splitters past existing houses to the new builds. Splitters and CBTs were fitted along this part of the lane.
As a community, we've been told that only the cores that serve the two new builds have been made live as there is capacity issues at the head/exchange side.
We are looking at a community Fibre project to bring the required CBTs to the main lane using voucher top ups.
The initial quotes from Openreach seem incredibly high, but they cite the exchange capacity as the reason.
We've not had a detailed cost breakdown yet.
Should providing the back end capacity head equipment be within the scope of our quote?
From what I can gather, if someone on the perpendicular lane did a fibre on demand request, because there is a CBT a metre outside their window, this would be cost capped with no head costs. Is this not the case for community Fibre?
Any help or advice from others in similar situation would be great!























