FTTP?

[Durzel]

The company I work for has just purchased some new vacated premises and from the looks of it the previous tenant had some kind of fibre connection installed.

There is a DP box on the wall as you enter the building and a couple of NTE (?) boxes that have thin orange wires going into both of them.

An Openreach engineer who installed an analogue line for us today strongly believed it was a FTTP install. I've got next to no knowledge of BT equipment, I just do the routin' and switchin'.

He suggested that I ring Openreach and quote the DP number, and arrange a survey to confirm? Problem is how do customers even contact Openreach? I thought they were abstracted from end users by design?

Is there anything I can do or check in the interim to confirm what this kit might be?

From the markings on the boxes and my familiarity of the company name I'm wondering whether it's some kind of site-to-site link, since location Y is mentioned on one of the boxes, when I'm in location X..

Thoughts?

[jjones]

If there is a number associated with an FTTP line (no idea if this is the case) then you could run it through:

https://www.dslchecker.bt.com/

or check if FTTP is available at the exchange:
https://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_search

[bimsb6]

You don't contact openreach as they work for the comms providers , you need to contact a comms provider most likely BT .

[ooo000ooo]

jjones said:

If there is a number associated with an FTTP line (no idea if this is the case) then you could run it through:

https://www.dslchecker.bt.com/

or check if FTTP is available at the exchange:
https://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_search

There's no real telephone number associated with fttp.

[buggalugs]

Could be EFM, Ethernet First Mile, though they use fibre now but often still refer to it as EFM. You're gonna have to just call BT business and deal with the idiocracy for an extended period of time.

[Dave_ST220]

Post up a pic of what you have

[Durzel]

Thanks all, will get some pictures and post up.

[Durzel]

Ok as promised, some redacted large images - hopefully they might shed some more light on it:

[Dave_ST220]

Well it's not FTTP in the new sense, that's old equipment. Most probably a dedicated fibre link, similar to the old Kilostream service.

[Durzel]

Thanks.. That would make sense based on what I know of the previous tenants.

[ooo000ooo]

mxuk is a megastream private circuit

[George111]

Durzel said:

Thanks.. That would make sense based on what I know of the previous tenants.

It's good to see there is fibre there - BT can charge an arm and a leg to install if it's not already there.

[Durzel]

Is there any value to me keeping this stuff where it is? None of it relates to our company, but I don't even know if BT perpetually own the equipment or not? It will irritate me to see it in the comms room every day

[George111]

Durzel said:

Is there any value to me keeping this stuff where it is? None of it relates to our company, but I don't even know if BT perpetually own the equipment or not? It will irritate me to see it in the comms room every day

If you will ever want a service which is delivered over fibre then leave it there. I've paid between £9k and £3k to get BT to connect a basic 100m bearer on fibre in the past . . . If you will never want that then do as you please.

You could tidy it up a bit, BT won't have stuck it to the wall like that !

[Dave_ST220]

George111 said:

You could tidy it up a bit, BT won't have stuck it to the wall like that !

Yeah right! That equipment is property of BT.

[plasticpig]

Looks like an ISDN 30 over fibre setup to me.

[George111]

Dave_ST220 said:

George111 said:

You could tidy it up a bit, BT won't have stuck it to the wall like that !

Yeah right! That equipment is property of BT.

It is and they would have fitted the hardware but they don't use sticky little cable ties like that and walk it up the wall, they leave the cabling dangling. I'd guess the previous occupier had a go at tidying it up and made it look like a kids arts and craft session

Cable ties on fibre isn't acceptable really.