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Dray:
Thanks

NewtronStar:
If the cabinet is only new why the heck would you need an extender is this the smaller Huawei MA5616T (128) cabinet ?

lee111s:
Basically it's a cab that serves half of a large (650+) newbuild estate.

The BDUK tender for the cabinet was done around 2 years ago, at which time, the cab served around 100 homes, so the BDUK paid for a H128 cabinet, as that at the time, would have been sufficient.

The cabinet today serves around 300 homes as they're still building. As a result, when the cab went live, the inital 64 ports went in under 24 hours. 2 susequent liine cards also were filled within 24 hours.

I did inform the BDUK team and Openreacch when I saw they installed the smaller cab back in February but it was too late to change it apparently.

The BDUK team have been in contact with OR since the cab went live and due to the demand Openreach have now planned a HD upgrade in the interim whilst they plan the addition of a second cabinet. Of course all could have been avoided if they'd changed for a H288 when they were made aware.

The reason it's been so popular is due to ADSL speeds being sub 2meg, again something Openreach were made aware of.

NewtronStar:
That clears it up, Property developers normally work in stages they have idea on how many homes they wanna build but due to money and bank loans they start stage 1 and when completed they hopefully will have planning permission for stage 2 and then back to the bank for another loan and onto stage 2.

It's just the way they work money is very tight with property developers you never know whats going to crop up next in that industry.

lee111s:
The planning for the full estate has been granted for around 9 years now. Certainly when Openreach were approached by the BDUK to upgrade the cab they had already been told by Bellway how many lines were required for the estate, however of course the BDUK funding is only available for postcodes and properties that exist at the time the tender is done.

It's just one of those situations but a bit more communication between Openreach and the BDUK could have made capacity a none issue but it is what it is.

Thankfully Openreach seem to be aware that a bit of a bollock has been dropped and they're pretty hot on increasing the capacity of the cab (probably driven by how quick the cab filled up).

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