These are the technologies we use to provide phone and broadband services over our copper network. They’re local loop unbundling (LLU) products, which let you install your own equipment in phone exchanges.
MPF – phone and broadband
MPF lets you deliver phone and broadband over copper cables. It gives a two-wire path from the network termination equipment (NTE) at your customer’s home or business to the exchange. It’s also called a “fully unbundled loop” or “classic local loop unbundling”.
At the exchange end the connection terminates at either a main distribution frame or jumper frame, where we can provide floor space, power and cooling. You can add connectivity options including internal or external tie cabling, and backhauling data from an exchange to a core network.
SMPF – broadband only
SMPF lets you offer broadband services over copper cables if another provider is handling that customer’s phone calls. It’s also called “line sharing” or “shared access to the local loop”.
SMPF gives you a two-wire path from the NTE at your customer’s home or business to the exchange, where it terminates at either a main distribution frame or jumper frame.
Find out more about MPF and SMPF, how they work and how they can help your customers.
Find out more about MPF and SMPF, how they work and how they can help your customers.
How-to guides for using Openreach products.
MPF
SMPF
MPF/SMPF common processes
CP NTE install, and working beyond the NTE
Information on what happens when you order a product or raise a fault with us. You’ll also find links to documents like product descriptions, pricing information and contracts.
The following documents explain the functional changes and upgrades we’ve made with each release, and how they affect the way our system interacts with yours. They’re aimed at your technical teams who design and build interfaces into the Openreach B2B gateway.
When we’re going to make a change, we’ll create a new document which we’ll publish before testing or release. We’ll then update this if we need to based on our findings. So keep checking back for updates.
(We reserve the right to change functionality as part of a release, and to add a new document to reflect this.)
We have a standardised process which we use to tell you about product releases. It’s called external information points (EIP). Find out more.
You can now find Functional Specification, and B2B/XML Release Documentation on iPublish, which can be found within the 'Your tools' section on your Dashboard.
See EMP response codes and B2B baselines from here.
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