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Diver Fred

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A tale of 2 villages Or How Many Cabinets!

Home village - BB served by BT FTTC (or School FTTP) with a recent Altnet arrival. Altnet provision is One Cabinet in the middle village of 3 villages that the cabinet feeds.

Village I'm resident in - a mix of BT FTTP or 'copper' from the exchange. The BT FTTP provision is in the roads/estates that is all U/G supply. The remainder are catching up with O/H from the poles. Altnet comes along with their Fibre and now we have numerous Cabinets appearing - just today 4 have appeared all less than 200 metres apart - mainly along one road in the village. I guess there will be or is more in other parts of the village.

I do think the Altnet Fibre provision topography is weird and excessive on the amount of street furniture.
 
Different altnets work in different ways. Some are entirely underground or overhead, with no street furniture at all. Some have passive cabinets. Some have active cabinets. If you want more details, you'll have to name the specific altnet(s) involved.

Openreach FTTP doesn't use cabinets at all, except in unusual circumstances where a local OLT is deployed ("subtended headend"). In the long distant future, when the last customer has moved off of FTTC, the FTTC cabinets will be decommissioned.
 
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Openreach FTTP doesn't use cabinets at all, except in unusual circumstances where a local OLT is deployed ("subtended headend"). In the long distant future, when the last customer has moved off of FTTC, the FTTC cabinets will be decommissioned.

Just wondering what the expected lifespan of an Openreach FTTC cabinet might be? I guess the components within - the line cards and if needed other bits - can all be swapped out and replaced, so it could 'stay alive' for as long as is necessary.
 
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Just wondering what the expected lifespan of an Openreach FTTC cabinet might be? I guess the components within - the line cards and if needed other bits - can all be swapped out and replaced, so it could 'stay alive' for as long as is necessary.
Some of the cabinets and punch down strips will qualify as proper antiques, but I would suggest the lifetime of the active kit for broadband is really predicated more by the onward march of technology and needing to keep up with consumer demand, along with an additional variable of the environmental conditions at that cabinet - one that is in good condition, stable power, in the shade, etc. will probably fare better than something that gets wet from passing traffic or gets excessively hot soon as the sun comes out.
 
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