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[lewisp8]

I was driving by the other day and noticed a few of these cabinets in my local area, they are small and about 1M in height and have fresh asphalt going in to BT's manhole covers. I did a bit of digging around on my local planning authority website and found an application (http://tinyurl.com/z5jcznc) which confirms they are infact for BT. The title of said application is: "Installation Of 1 X Meter Pillar Equipment Cabinet Providing Power For A Next Generation Remote Fibre Broadband G Node Located Within A Junction Box. The Dimensions Of The Cabinet Are: Height 1100mm X Length 470mm X Depth 450mm". After more digging around i found the exact same cabinet on this website (http://tinyurl.com/gt9u3qq), it describes it as a "Power pillar to send power to G.fast nodes over copper pairs". Does this mean that G fast is possibly coming to my area in the near future? would be pretty chuffed if it twas

[Black Sheep]

Sounds very possible ............... the height (1 mtrs) would fit in with the spec for a Huwaei PP.

[Ronski]

I guess that as they are installing a power pillar that the g.fast node is not located at a PCP/FTTC cab. I presume this must be some sort of trial.

[burakkucat]

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I did a bit of digging around on my local planning authority website and found an application (http://tinyurl.com/z5jcznc) which confirms they are infact for BT.
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I can confirm that the images, shown in the above application, are indeed of Huawei power feeding pillars (mini-cabinets). 

[Black Sheep]

Huwaei Power pillars. 

[renluop]

What's that in the bottom of the open pillar; someone's stash?

[Black Sheep]

pmsl ...... I too wondered what that might be ?? My boring guess is desiccant packs ??

[gt94sss2]

Interesting - it looks like BDUK funded g.fast.

OX33 1QX is not part of Openreach's 25,000 g.fast trial - in fact the whole of the Wheatley exchange is funded by BDUK and that cab is supposed to go live for FTTC by December 16...

[Black Sheep]

It is part of the FTTRN trial.

[WWWombat]

There's an FTTRN trial big enough to be known as THE trial?

When I checked out the first FTTRN node, I discovered a power pillar like this. I'll have to dig out photos.

[lewisp8]

Thanks for all the replies. The nearest one of these is just down the road (50M ish) so hopefully I would be connected to the node when it is live. How would you order such a service when it is available ?

[ktz392837]

Does anyone know if it will matter if your main cab if ECI and gfast cab is Huwaii or will things need to match?

[Ronski]

As it stands at the moment they are entirely separate, so it does not matter.