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FTTP multiple lines on poles.

As much as I a pleased to have FTTP in a rural location it does make a real mess compared to the single copper feed that used to be there.

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Is this the only way to implement it?
 
That's quite normal, it completely depends on how the network is laid out (different fibres going in different directions, etc.) We have 4 lines connected to the poles outside our property, 2 are fibre (Openreach and Airband) and 2 are copper (original copper line and replacement copper line for our property to fix an ongoing fault in the past). I think most people aren't too bothered about how it looks, especially if they could only receive a handful of Mb/s before. I have seen the likes of Google Fibre twist their fibre round other cables, but not in the UK.
 
As much as I a pleased to have FTTP in a rural location it does make a real mess compared to the single copper feed that used to be there.

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Is this the only way to implement it?
You have multiple copper and fibre there. The thick one is copper aerial cable. Copper cable will stay until everyone is on FTTP, then a recovery program will start.
 
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Before the fibre rollout there was just two copper feed wires, on thick one and one drop wire but now every time someone gets connected another single fibre is run the whole way down the road.
This pole is quite neat, there are some places where the heights are all over the place.

I shouldn't complain as this time last years I had 1.5Mbps and now have 940Mbps
 
I guess this is some sort of 'trunk' route of poles that is carrying multiple PON's to different areas?

Around here some of them closer to the exchange (or whatever they're called these days) seem to be carrying a few fibres and then it branches out into single fibres to the varying clusters of houses and farms.
 
I've also noticed that with the multiple FTTP lines you get a whistling when the wind blows, quite odd the first time
 
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