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Can anyone shed any light on this..?

jennipinnock
Member

on ‎09-08-2010 08:01 AM

Hi all,

 

I was wondering if anyone could help me out!

 

We're about to move in to a new office in central London. Cat 5 cabling and BT ISDN lines have already been previously installed. There are lots of cables and boxes associated with it, and I was wondering if anyone could identify what's going on by these pictures?

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I presume these are four BT ISDN boxes? (they say BT and ISDN on them!). They each have one coloured cable coming out of them - and one white painted one, which I presume is the line itself, although I may be wrong.. 

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All the cables feed into these two large beige boxes, before feeding into the smaller grey one (the lowest one, beside the ISDN boxes), and then into the trunking. Ignore the two dangling cables - they come from a rack set above all this equipment, which has been left empty. 

 

Can anyone shed any light on what these do? We will be contacting BT for their assistance in setting up our telephony and data needs when we move in to the office in a week's time, but I thought that identifying the equipment already installed would mean I could tell them precisely what we have, and what we need..! 

 

Many thanks in advance for anyone who can shed any light on the issue. 

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Alun
Master User

on ‎09-08-2010 01:28 PM

Hi jennipinnock,

 

I would say that the best option would be to contact BT to say what your requirements are and tailor a product/package to suit rather than determine what is onsite and change your needs to fit the existing equipment. Do you know what you are looking to get, a normal telephone line & broadband or do you require more substantial product?

Regards,

Alun
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Billy171
Member
In response to Alun

on ‎24-08-2010 06:05 PM

I tend to agree with Alun's opinion here ....

 

Looking at the photos it's difficult to evaluate what's going on there .....

 

But one thing is for certain, old isdn line boxes play no part in line adaptive 21CN connections,

 

and so most of that stuff will be trashed. If you have an extensive office network to configure, then it's best to get an

 

evaluation done up front .... because even if you order broadband, before even thinking about bandwidth distribution

 

issues, the line will be in training for 10 days, before establishing itself to full potential line throughput.