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We might also need also need to drill an extra small hole or two outside to work safely on our ladders. It will really help us if you can clear some space for us to work. And you’ll need your new router to hand when we get there. We’ll run a fibre optic cable, from a nearby telegraph pole or underground, to a small junction box on an external wall. Not sure why the alternative has to be something PoE capable. The existing has worked fine for a few hundred thousand installs. Something for consideration in the future as I’ve said but I can’t see either SFP or wires-only being a thing unless plugging the fibre into an Openreach approved router that they are able to provision.
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This box will live in a powered cabinet or a tiny rural exchange. In cabinet is actually how everyone else bar CityFibre and Openreach deliver as standard. This is a way to extend reach without having to modify the wholesale product in any way – same Cablelinks connect these customers as those directly served by the headend OLT.
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If you are a fibre customer, it’s likely you’ll have an Openreach modem (or ONT) installed. This white box connects to a fibre-optic cable that runs to your house and enables you to access our FTTP fibre network for broadband and voice. Where’s the line card and chassis coming from to do this? Huawei sell specific kit for specific purposes. I’m not aware of the OLTs Openreach use supporting CWDM, neither these subtended ones or the headend units – Huawei actually sell a specific chassis, the OSN 1800, for WDM. Just looks like the original Openreach ONT 1+1 just without the big case which I suspect it is, The real new BT ONT is a 1+0 from Nokia so this is just an interim solution without the big bulky case and no BBU Quite a niche case again – most people don’t have PoE switches let alone structured cabling within their walls. Huawei don’t make such a device as far as I’m aware for those reasons. That would seem quite impractical under a variety of failure scenarios. New fibre splicing every time an ONT fails isn’t a great way to run a mass-market business.
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Openreach comment they can now provide fttp at 98Km from an exchange, I’d assume that’s a miniscule number of properties and an eyewatering proposition financially. With that in mind this is the new Huawei ONT. The new Nokia one is for Nokia ONTs. The same ECI kit for the awful ECI OLT configuration. Like a DSLAM it delivers a bunch of VLANs, possibly nested depending on CP, to the OLT which are then sent to service providers via Cablelinks.’
What will the engineer do?
You must always plug your Smart Hub into the Openreach modem port PORT 1. If you're connected to PORT 1 but have no internet connection, try plugging the Ethernet cable (red ends) into the next one along. After a few minutes a blue light will show your hub is ready.
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The ONT tends to be installed inside your home (wall hung), usually near to where the fibre optic cable physically enters the property, and it’s primary job is simply to take that optical signal and convert it into an electrical one so that you can hook-up a broadband router via a standard LAN / Ethernet port. I can’t off the top of my head think of any cases where businesses are expected to put an operator-provided SFP into their equipment. Wires-only or managed router/firewall in my experience. Aside from the well-publicised debate around Huawei kit, what is the benefit for OR moving to Nokia ONTs given how much they have invested in Huawei kit. Wont they lose access to things like ONT diagnostic info?This ignoring the standardisation, scalability, etc, of such a solution. Openreach have to produce essentially the same products everywhere. Providing point to point Ethernet over CWDM for a small group of customers isn’t really an option, asinine as that is. Provisioning changes, parts and engineer training become an ‘issue’, the cost of the hardware on both ends as mentioned above becomes an ‘issue’. GPON provisioning is not standardised. Operators do it in their own proprietary way so Openreach don’t mix and match vendors across the PON. To do so complicates provisioning and loses them a bunch of visibility, management and telemetry. Ethernet connection is normal between Openreach fibre modem and hub (Port 1 is where engineer will install). What to do We'll then agree with you how best to set up your new service and where to put the BT Smart Hub to get the best wi-fi performance and speed. This may include running new cables, or disconnecting old extension wiring and powerline adapters. I would imagine that a SFP based ONT would be quite popular among business users. Basically I you run some single mode cable from a junction box at the edge of your premises to where ever you wish to locate your router (probably in a cabinet somewhere in the middle of the building) where you plug the SFP ONT into your router of choice.
the Home): Check your wiring and set-up - BT Full Fibre (Fibre to the Home): Check your wiring and set-up - BT
When you say slightly smaller than the current ONT? the current ONT is (H)134mm x (W)115mm x (D)25mm any idea what size the new one is? If you're a fibre customer you might have an Openreach modem (or ONT) installed. This white box connects to a fibre optic cable, which runs directly to your house and allows you to access our fibre network for broadband and voice.The alternative being a PoE powered device ideally supporting 802.3af/at and 12-54V passive like a lot of Mikrotik products. This is used to provide your voice and broadband service. It's also known as an Optical Network Termination box or ONT. And TBH copper lines that long must cost fortunes per premises to maintain so there is possibly a better commercial case to doing this than meets the first glance. This is a really good move actually. Kudos to Openreach. I’ve been waiting for street-side OLTs for a while. We connect the 15cm x 13cm external junction box to the Openreach fibre network using a fibre optic cable. Depending on your property, the cable will either run from underground or from a telegraph pole. In both cases, the cable runs directly from one of our exchanges.
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