Eir rural FTTH thread

plodder wrote: »

I think this is it. It's not clear, but it appears to have an Ericsson logo on it. There is also a green box further up the road on the green area. Not sure if that is relevant.

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.5282846,-6.312639,3a,60y,246.69h,79.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swVivRjxLp5J4QZushhsDlA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

The green one is eircom for sure, thats likely the RSU.

The silver one could be them too as the concrete manhole covers look like classic TE ones but not sure. Its possible its ESB monitoring kit or it could be where they're building the new rack (it needs to be bigger). A few of the others on here may be better in the know there.

Gonzo wrote: »

surprised that Dunshaughlin hasn't made it to the February round of exchanges going live. Looks like it will be March at least before the area goes live.

found 5 places going live in February apart from Crosshaven which got delayed:

Rhode 3rd February
Rosslare Harbour 3rd February
Blarney 3rd February
Annascaul – 3rd February
Clonmany - 3rd February

It must have updated literally in the last couple of hours ..as i checked Annascaul earlier today and there was no change to it ...

Gonzo wrote: »

currently FTTH rural blue lines have just under 4800 premises passed for end of January. I'm expecting the number of premises passed by end of March fall far short of the original 100,000 which was originally intended to be passed by that stage. At current rate we will be lucky to have 10,000 blue lines passed by end of March.

Do you have a link for the info about premises passed to date?

Thanks.

Allison Puny Appetite wrote: »

You add up all the currently announced premises.

I'll update the spreadsheet later.

There has been nothing on the openeir techbytes page since Dec 16

Where are they announcing the FTTH numbers?

gflann wrote: »

Eir have been around our area, to offer Fibre, saying it's going live on Feb 2nd.
They have even increased the speeds of current Eir customers.
I on the other hand have Sky for the next 7 months.
Does anyone know, how long it takes Sky and Vodafone to get the option of offering Fibre?
Is there some sort of preferential treatment that Eir get, because of the cost of implementation?

They can offer it as soon as eir can, but it is dependent on them making the decision to sell from the exchange and setting up the backhaul necessary for them to be able to sell.

Exchanges: http://e09b23f16375c2e830a8-04361240f0fcddabb02028a259afe028.r52.cf3.rackcdn.com/nga-exchanges-2014.csv
Cabinets: http://e09b23f16375c2e830a8-04361240f0fcddabb02028a259afe028.r52.cf3.rackcdn.com/nga-cabinets.csv

From what I can tell, they contain the data the openeir map uses. Have fun

There doesn't seem to be any rhyme nor reason to the pattern of blue line areas being enabled for FTTH. And only small sections of a given exchange area seem to be getting enabled initially. Which suggest there will be a lot of return visits by crews to many areas.

On the blue line map, it's interesting to click the button at the top "Core Fibre Network". This shows how the exchanges are connected along a main line.

Interestingly (from my personal perspective) the neighbouring exchange to me, Turloughmore, is at the end of a main line branch emanating out of Galway city which is the centre of many tributaries. But the core line passes right through Claregalway (my exchange) which is the only other exchange on that line from the central hub.

So does that mean they might be working backwards from the end of that line and doing Claregalway soon? Then from a high-level point of view, that whole core line out of Galway to its end will be 'all done'.

Who knows...

superloopy wrote: »

Fibre services blue marker has now disappeared from the updated open eir map.

I can still see a blue marker for fibre services for FTTH for Headford.

What I thought was strange was the blue line doesn't break between Headford & Ballyspillane. Does that mean people could be supplied from either end?

Does anybody know if FTTH lines are generally in practice being laid from the exchange or does it depend on the weather or ease of access? Or does it matter where they start?

I assume they have to start the fibre run them from the exchange or do you mean completing the connections nearest the exchange first?

I would think they are completing the parts of the blue lines which are most heavily populated first and have the greatest commerical benefit to them.

Gonzo wrote: »

It's a good sign that there is a much larger number of exchanges going live within the first 3 days of February. Hopefully the map will get updated again in 2 weeks after the 6th of February with another string of dates. Dunshaughlin has to make it next time!

But I assume retailers would have gotten a months notice that these were going live, ie they would have been included in the apq file from 3rd Jan. but it took them to 24th Jan to update the map. therefore Dunshauglin could go live a month from today, but you might only see an update on the map a week before its due to happen...

ED E wrote: »

The green one is eircom for sure, thats likely the RSU.

The silver one could be them too as the concrete manhole covers look like classic TE ones but not sure. Its possible its ESB monitoring kit or it could be where they're building the new rack (it needs to be bigger). A few of the others on here may be better in the know there.

The silver one has been there for years. So, I don't think it has anything to do with the FTTH deployment. The core fibre network has a spur into the village (according to the map). I wonder if it has anything to do with that.

Proposed wholesale price increase, the charge for the ONT Installed by open eir is going up from €150 to €270 from Feb 1st.

http://www.openeir.ie/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=4051