Re: Which is the virgin street cabinet?
 

From what I can make out neither of them cabs have a 240v feed. Only the optical nodes as you call them (or launch cabinets, or mux a's) have a 240v feed you can tell this has it will have a RCB device. This is then wired into a PSU either an all in one unit that splits the power into 60v and 48v or two separate units.

A typical area in the Northwest (ex Nynex build) would be something along the lines of the following.

Fibre to optical node 4 of those this is then converted into RF into the launch amp for the area, these then feed either trunk or line amplifiers, never any more than 4 in the cascade, on average 14 per area, each amp feeding a 48 way tap block.

So each cabinet can serve 48 homes
Each area on avarage 672 homes
each optical area 2600

These are only averages .

Re: Which is the virgin street cabinet?
 

You are right about the voltage feed; i cant see any warning of that anywhere on or near the cabs; whats the difference between the cabs that have these and the ones that don't?

Re: Which is the virgin street cabinet?
 

They are usually twice the size or bigger

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This thread is brilliant, just the kind of tech discussion I've been searching for, and with pictures too! :)

Re: Which is the virgin street cabinet?
 

So I actually took a look at the brown box on the side of my house properly for the first time; and there is a load of cables going to it.

There is 2 sets of double cables with a brown plastic outside going into the box; and then a black double cable going in there as-well; I have no idea where the brown cables come/go fro but the black cable goes under the path and down into a green hose that goes under the street Any idea what the brown cables are for?

Also i opened the box up and its literally packed with cables LOL so i just closed it.

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/06/67.jpg

Re: Which is the virgin street cabinet?
 

Okay. So we know what a BT cab looks like and we know what a VM cab looks like. So what's this? ;)

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My ideas:
A. A BT cab that VM have taken over or hijacked.
B. A BT cab in VM's Cabinet Protection Program.

Re: Which is the virgin street cabinet?
 

At first i was like 'that looks like some of the bigger streetcabs arround here' but then it has some kind of mutant door thing coming out the front of it?

LOL

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@ TJS

Ah - a photo of the inside of the brown box would help answer your questions more reliably. (if you can be arsed to provide a phot, do please separate things as clearly as possible for ease of discernment!).

Essjay may know more about the Nynex build, but the build in my area was Telecential --> Comtel --> Cabletel = NTL.

Mine is a grey box with a thick black cable emerging from a green undergound hose. The telephone wires pop out of the black sheathing and distribute out of the box and round two places in the house. The digital cable goes into a splitter that goes out round the wall to two other TV box places in the house and through the wall to another room which further distributes via a splitter to cable modem and TV.

So your brown cables - did Nynex do FM radio separately? Or is that even how analogue TV was provided? Essjay?

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Ill attempt to brave opening the brown box again.....

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/06/63.jpg

Please excuse the picture quality LOL i tried to be discreet and use compact camera because i Imagine a few eyebrows would be raised if i was out there with my slr taking photos of a box. LOL

edit: made picture lower resolution

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whoa the size of that coax coming in

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I thought that to LOL

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fatter than me leg

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Compare it to the standard sized brick for a reality check.:D:D:D

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The bricks on my house are smaller then modern ones as it was built in 1830

I think its RG-11 coax coming into the box

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/06/64.jpg

RG11 top RG6 bottom

Re: Which is the virgin street cabinet?
 

Not that small as the cable is the standard siamese cable coming into the OMNI box.