The (VDSL) SSFP does also do the following, which other faceplates may or may not do:
1) Isolates any extension wiring, i.e. prevents you from running it with dongles elsewhere. This may or may not be a good thing depending upon the state of your internal wiring.
2) it brings the VDSL signal onto punchdowns so that you can run a cat5e cable as a 'data extension'
3) makes the entire NTE twice the *~! size it previously was, thereby making it even more ugly and more likely to be knocked.
AIUI, more recent BTOR NTE5's allegedly have both the bell-wire disconnect and REIN filter included. The SFI who resolved the lateral inbalance on my line last year fitted one as a matter of course 'in preparation for fibre' for that reason.
BTOR have already announced forthcoming Q3? changes to Fibre install whereby the ISP can provide the EU with either an SSFP or dongles along with their own CPE e.g. a combined VDSL modem/router
Hi Colin.
If I'm reading your post correctly, by 'Punchdowns' I'm assuming you mean IDC terminations (Insulation Displacement Connectors). More commonly referred to as 'Krone' connections ??
If so, I thought it worth pointing out that in time gone by, if the EU required a data-extention socket in another room to that of the NTE5, as this would be better suited for the router, we were told to use these terminations to carry the VDSL signal to the extention socket.
However, a rethink by 'them above' means if the same scenario is required, we have to run a 'Cat cable' from the plug-in port on the face-plate to where the socket is to be sited. The reason being, the demarcation point was breached if fed via the 'Krone' terminations, and therefore OR became liable for the new extention lead as well. With the later 'Plug-in' extention, the EU can still test at the NTE whether he has a connection or not, should a fault develop on his circuit ?? Hope this waffle makes sense ??
PS ......... we were told that the NTE2000 and indeed the VDSL plates do have additional REIN/RFI protection built in to them. I can't prove this to be true (unlike Asbo or B*Cat), but I can say that before a REIN/RFI interference case is raised by our technical team, a NTE2000/VDSL plate
HAS to have been fitted alongside an RF3 filter, before the case will be raised. Not advocating the practice, just saying that 'Thems the rules'.