Hello All. I have been keeping an eye on the forum for a number of months now - thank you for all the useful posts. To cut a long story short, I paid for Openreach to install an FTTC cabinet to serve my street, as we are currently connected to the only PCP without FTTC in my town. I placed the order in early February 2018, and Openreach committed to me being able to "order an FTTC service" within 12 months of this date. Although physically Openreach haven't even begun, my account manager still believes they will be on target for February (all paperwork done apparently) and so naturally I am getting excited to go from 15MB/1MB to 70MB/20MB (I am only a couple of 100m from the cabinet, and about 2.5km from the exchange).
I know from research that a copper frame will be installed into the right hand side of the PCP (hopefully there will be enough room!?), with every pair on this new frame jumpered to the FTTC cabinet. Then, when I order an FTTC service, the OR Engineer will simply remove my pair from the E side, and place it into a spare pair on this new frame. This will link me to the FTTC cabinet.
My queries therefore are:
1. At what point and by which interface is the incoming copper pair connected to one of the linecards in the FTTC cab?
2. Does each linecard have one fibre terminated to it? (so one fibre will be serving 36 customers, 6 fibres necessary for the 6 linecards due to be installed)
3. What happens at the exchange end; is the copper link between the PCP and the E for my line now obsolete?
I did hope to be able to visit the exchange during the cabinet installation, and I am sure I will pop along to chat to the engineers when they are out installing, but unlike when I was ADSL campaigner back in 2004, it's unlikely they will let me have a look round the exchange.
Thanks,
Tom