It depends dns where they put the ONT for the FTTP product. I would expect that 
to be in the cabinet and as these are a few grand they would only install in 
cabs that were actually serving FTTP.

Joe Waite

> On 12 Sep 2020, at 10:20, Paul Mansfield <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks. Is it unlikely that bt would provision a cabinet without the 
> necessary cablelinks to be able to provide both FTTC and FTTP? I would 
> imagine the fibres themselves are cheap enough to have a large number, and 
> they just splice on a termination as and when needed?
> 
>> On Sat, 12 Sep 2020, 09:44 Simon Green, <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Exchange end the fttp net is almost always on a different set of L2Ss to the 
>> fttc net, so you need additional cablelinks to receive it. But yes, after 
>> that each circuit is a vlan. 
>> 
>>> On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, at 11:18 PM, Paul Mansfield wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 14:54 Alex Threlfall, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Very interesting, I have a FTTC cabinet right outside my front fence, but 
>>> FTTP is still a £1000+ option :(
>>> 
>>> I'd be happy to dig the trench through my front lawn and present the fibre 
>>> to the rear of the cabinet, but they won't entertain it!
>>> 
>>> Is there some special difference between FTTC and FTTP cabinets? 
>>> Won't BT simply provide a tunnel or vlan or  between the isp's unbundled 
>>> kit at the exchange and the cabinet fibre termination which then is the 
>>> link to the ONT/CPE?
>>> 

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