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Originally Posted by BBKing
Who says we don't know how many people are fed from a node? I have a report here, colour coded, showing % online/offline at node level for any UBR. Dead useful.
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Granted if you are saying there is one node per UBR port.
I agree the resegmentation has narrowed things down, but thats only a benefit for stats relating to broadband customers. I would think it's a different story on the original ntl areas where the set top box is seperate from the cabel modem and on different systems, and of course any analogue customers.
The idiotic part back in the analogue days was the Jerrold ACC4000 had a field called "Amplifier" or "Node" in the database(not sure off the top of my head) this could be filled in for each customer when the customer was installed on the system. ntl never made use of the facility. Certainly in the original ntl ie: CableTel areas it wasn't used anyway.
When digital was launched in orig ntl areas and cable modems for that matter the return path was combined at the 2 ring level, so it was only possible to track a set-top down to approx one of 16 nodes. I thought it was very short sighted from the very first time in CableTel days I saw the facility on the ACC4000 being ignored.
If you now have one UBR port per node things are much easier if you are looking for customers,(still a prob in orig ntl areas though) but the best would obviously be to have a customers DP recorded. I hold my hand up if this has now changed and someone has sat down to record all those hundreds of thousands of customrs and DP's, Perhaps it has now been imported from another database and my experience is a bit out of date.