Fact sheet:

Resilience Option 2
Resilience ensures that two bre routes between service end points are kept as diverse from each other as possible. Resilience Option 2 (RO2) comes with two service boxes, each with a single diversely routed path from different building entry points. In the event of a failure on the primary path, trafc must be switched manually to the secondary one.

Product benets
Resilience is designed to minimise risks should optical failure, bre break / derogation or matters beyond our reasonable control occur. Peace of mind for your customers
Enables you to offer a higher degree of network certainty for critical customer applications.

Right rst time

Ensure the right solution rst time by using our planners to scope the degree of diversity achievable, case by case.

Protection from unforeseen incidents

No single cable, equipment or nodal failure in the BT network will prevent the use of one of the two resilient circuits.

Flexible use
Wide availability across different circuits provides resilient options in almost every scenario.

Single supplier
Using a single supplier like Openreach for both your main and resilient circuits saves valuable time and frustration.

Engineering expertise
Over 21,000+ installation and repair engineers offering added assurance.

Product features:
n Two diversely routed circuits between either: Common A end & B end termination points Common A end & two different B end points Two different A end & two different B end points. n Separate NTE at each end of each circuit n Trafc is switched manually to the standby route n Available for: BES, WES, WEES and ONBS bandwidths, Broadcast Access, EAD, EBD, OSA and OSEA n Can be applied to Ethernet circuits of the same product type or on a crossproduct basis n Primary & secondary paths can be different bandwidths n Diversity maintained by Openreachs network monitoring n Diverse routes for parallel circuits avoid common ducts and cables wherever possible.

How it works
A-End Site Local End NTE Serving Exchange (a) BT Core Network Local End NTE B-End Site

NTE

NTE

Serving Exchange Note: There is no assurance against duct failure on the two circuits NTE NTE

(c)

(b)

Alternative A-End Users site Primary Circuit Secondary Circuit BT node Configuration (a) or (b) optional Configuration (b) most common Configuration (c) when between different A & B ends

Alternative B-End Users site

The diagram above shows a typical Resillience Option 2 (RO2) conguration.

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