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Broadband Related => Broadband Technology => Topic started by: adrianw on March 26, 2018, 08:06:23 PM

Title: Anybody recognise this enclosure...
Post by: adrianw on March 26, 2018, 08:06:23 PM
... Appeared recently outside my local exchange, not far from the AIO on the footpath.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cisd1bu268bg1hw/2018-03-26%2016.59.00.jpg?dl=0
Title: Re: Anybody recognise this enclosure...
Post by: burakkucat on March 26, 2018, 08:28:06 PM
That is a perfectly standard cabinet equipped with a Huawei SmartAX MA5616 DSLAM.
Title: Re: Anybody recognise this enclosure...
Post by: adrianw on March 26, 2018, 10:44:47 PM
Ah, thanks. Time will tell who it is connecting, with what.
I was intrigued by it actually being inside the exchange grounds.
Title: Re: Anybody recognise this enclosure...
Post by: kitz on March 26, 2018, 10:50:12 PM
Yup, b*cat is correct.   Its a standard Huawei 96/128 FTTC cab (http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/fttc-cabinets.htm).   They put a couple of them outside one of my neighbouring exchanges last year to enable FTTC for what were previously EO lines.  It should have a twin PCP somewhere nearby.
Title: Re: Anybody recognise this enclosure...
Post by: kitz on March 26, 2018, 11:05:44 PM
I was intrigued by it actually being inside the exchange grounds.

Our posts crossed.   This is one of those at a neighbouring exchange, which is is the BT car park and you can see its twin PCP on the pavement. 
BlackSheep will probably recognise the exchange.

Last time I walked past and cut down the alley, it looked like they were putting another one in right up against the back of the exchange, was in a hurry at the time so didn't pay that much attention other than wonder where its twin was.