b*cat - Ive known for a long time that the Huawei adsl2+ MSANs in the exchange reported IFTN.
This dates back to my visits to a couple of exchanges about 7/8yrs ago. Aside from seeing them with my own eyes, Its well known that TT - or rather Opal Communications -
bought & installed Huawei MSANs in all exchanges... and since a friend of mine who's line I set up was with TT at the time it didnt take me long to suss that they had IFTN chipsets. I am 100% certain of these facts.
As well as it being on the MSAN page I also put the info
here.
I had no idea that the MSAN, through which my (TalkTalk) service is provided, is Huawei hardware.
Im sure Ive told you that before because you asked why I had IFTN listed by Huawei MSAN, because you queried something re the huawei fttc dslams and BCM in the same list. What I didn't know until the google yesterday is that it reported the chip from the linecard, not the main MSAN itself.
The Huawei MSANs are likely UA5000's but I only had permission to poke at BTw equipment and not LLU, so anything to do with LLU I could look and not touch, and no photos allowed of LLU kit aside from the handover frame which is BTw owned. Whatever they are they are a heck of a lot larger than the DSLAMs in the cab with a lot more line cards - they take up a full size rack about 7 ft tall (much taller than me). They have to be full MSANs because they dont just handle broadband but also handle lots of telephony for MPF LLU.
I'm with TalkTalk here in Thanet so what does that mean?
You're on FTTC.. so attached to an ECI DSLAM.
