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Originally Posted by greencreeper
I've been keeping an eye out for these green boxes, in a sad anorak sort of way. There seems to be three types - the tall ones, with lots of doors, that seem sturdy but mysteriously are never vandalised (well not around here); the old, what looks like, iron/steel type with a big chunky lock on the door - these don't seem to be vandalised; and the modern small ones that are forever been broken into. Most of them around here have been given a good kicking so the door(s) is/are all bent in.
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The old unvandalised Iron/Steel types are BT methings. NTL has the huge green three door 5ft tall cabs, the double door 3x3 cabs and the lift off top / front 1.5x2 cabs.
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Originally Posted by ntl customer
What kind of gear do they have in the ones with lots of doors?
They have some of these round our area.
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Lots of doors the 5ft tall ones with three doors? They will be around all areas. It's the NTL equivilant of a telephone exchange (so if you don't have Caller ID in your area, that is the box they have to install the hardware in (as you can see there are lots more of these than BT exchanges), also amplifiers to get the signal for TV distributed in the local area, batteries to power the phone exchange in the event of a power cut (as telco is an emergency service or something). Cable modem equipment (is this where the UBRs are?). It's the termination of the NTL backbone into the local cables.
Others with full knowledge of the NTL network will be better placed to elaborate on this though.
The two smaller cabs are very similar for content, one just holds more than the other, nothing powered in there, just lots of terminations.