Update

29 September 2022 – Trooli scheduled works keeps coming up on One-Network but their is no sign of any activity yet.

4 October 2023 – Trooli scheduled works in Station Street, maybe its getting closer 🙂

8 January 2024 – Infrastructure work started!

Trooli

Well 2022 is a very busy year for broadband in Chatteris, Openreach now deliver Ultrafast broadband with fibre to the premises (FTTP), Virgin Media are expanding their 2017 network in the town to include homes and business not previously included, Netomnia started work in May to lay down its own independent FTTP infrastructure and now Trooli are making a presence all with their own independent network.

What is interesting is that Trooli have an agreement with UK Power Networks to run their fibre optic cables across certain power poles, enabling them to reach many more customers. The write up on this can be found HERE.

I just wonder where all these customers are coming from to give payback on the huge investment these companies are outlaying?

Work Commenced – 8th Jan 24

Checking on Onenetwork, Trooli works were highlighted, (telephone symbol), from the 8th to 15th Jan at:

• Wenny Road
• Old Huntingdon Road
• Huntingdon Road
• Iretons Way

I knew that Trooli had been working in Sutton, so checked the Wenny Road location first as the fibre to Chatteris comes from there on route to Warboys, and saw the fibre engineers van, I obviously must have missed the earlier fibre pull from Sutton and the one on route to Warboys.

Chatting to the guy who was very cordial, he told me that a 48 core fibre runs from Sutton, and from this they splice off into either pole or footway box Connectorised Block Terminal which Trooli refer to as an ‘FPs’.

The lockable FP used has an inbuilt optical splitter, splitting a single fibre into 16 customer ports.

FP details from another supplier.

FP in the process of being spliced into the main trunk fibre before being placed into the footway box for customer connection at a later date.

In chatting, it appears, (at this stage of my understanding), that the Trooli topography is different to Netomnia or Openreach where they have either aggregation nodes or differing levels of fibre dissemination with plenty of spare fibres taken to the exchange.

Trooli seem to simply reduce the trunk fibre by one each time they connect a 16 port FP, I must be missing something otherwise that will give a maximum customer number of 46 x 16 = 736, leaving 2 fibres to pick up Warboys.