In message , Andy
Burns writes
News wrote:

The local DSLAM cabinet

MSAN they call it for VDSL/FTTC, DSLAM implies ADSL.

Ah, thanks.

was installed outside our house
a year ago, and since then, there is often an Openreach van there, with
a little man doing things in the cabinet. Daft question perhaps, but
presumably an engineer is not required to make a connection within the
cabinet every time someone switches to FTTC broadband?

So an Openreach engineer is required to visit a cabinet every time
someone migrates? Didn't realise that. Interestingly, the new MSAN
cabinet did not replace and old cabinet, at least not in the same place.
The new installation is actually two cabinets, the large green MSAN with
a smaller green cabinet beside it.

Interestingly, prior to the installation of the new cabinet(s) against
our garden wall, we received the usual planning application from the
local authority. Needless to say, I did not object. The planning
permission showed only one cabinet to be installed, but two appeared. I
did not object to that, either.


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Graeme