Openeir fibre rollout

Similar question on my end. Multi-unit development currently having fiber installed, another day or so and the fiber rollout will have completed with cable brought to the breakout boxes at each individual apartment.

How long should we expect before the fibre actually goes live and services can be provided? I know houses in the immediate vicinity have an active service and the development is adjacent to a large exchange.

EarWig wrote: »

It always takes much longer than people expect. Based on experience (non apartments) once you see people laying the cable, it can take 6-12 months before you can actually order.

Was chatting with the lads doing the work, they were saying that the service should be live within a month and perhaps sooner.

I'll report back with an update!

babi-hrse wrote: »

Generally what happens is the fibre gets laid in the junction boxes in the street a duct from there goes to the basement or the riser in the hall. Kn are not allowed to run it up the inside of the building up the landing (they don't drill up risers either)

Most end up on a project for another crew to run breakout boxes from the distribution point in the street to each floor.
This is probably the stage your at.

KN Circet are after bringing the fibre from the basement into the riser and then out into the breakout boxes.The fibre was brought into the development junction boxes a few weeks back by KN and then this week the fibre has been brought by KN from the junction boxes, into the basement, up the risers and to the breakout boxes.

I reckon it must be the OP's management company that is slowing things up on his end. Once we gave approval KN came back to the development quickly to finish off the work, evidently eager to get the job done.

babi-hrse wrote: »

An ideal solution would be to have a room in the riser that can only be accessed by the caretaker that allows the fibre to be installed in a cabinet then the existing cat5 cables from there to each apartment to be plugged into it so the service could be brough over existing lines.
However there may be other issues such as communal areas being powered off a different fuseboard and being linked via cat5 to apartment equipment which is powered by another fuseboard.
A Poe injector would probably be the ideal scenario that mitigates this issue however it might affect throughout on the cat5 cable if it's also has to double up as a power supply.

We don't have CAT5 whatsoever in our development unfortunately. They've brought the fibre the whole way through to the breakout boxes located above each individual apartment door. We've been told that when an occupant contacts a service provider a first time connection will be provided free of charge by drilling a hole behind the breakout box directly into the apartment and feeding through the fibre. The occupant will get a few metres of fibre cable to wherever they want the end point for the router in their apartment.

We're lucky in that the risers were accessible from the basement onto each landing without the need for much structural work to be carried out. KN seemed to think the work would be a lot more difficult than it has been.

I've been chatting to installers about the setup too in terms of power supply and so on. They don't need to use any power whatsoever from the communal areas thankfully. All powered from the exchange so no cost to the management company whatsoever. A real no brainer by the management company to give KN the go ahead in my view.

I must say I'm impressed by the work that KN carried out. All neat and tidy. Some concrete had to be dug in the basement and they've poured fresh concrete the same day. They've also touched up any painting required in the common areas and so on while installing the breakout boxes / cabling.