Openreach shaves £10m off FTTP rollout cost with a ‘subtended headend’

BT’s networks arm Openreach is making progress with its new-ish approach to getting fibre into hard-to-reach areas.
The Openreach press release calls the tech it’s using a ‘subtended headend’, but beyond saying that they are installed in street cabinets, pretty much leaves it at that when it comes to explaining what they actually are.
However, the name also crops up in an ISPreview article from 2019, which explains that it’s another name for a shrunken optical line