Informer 358: 21 April 2016

From mid July 2016 you will be able to use the Next Generation Access (NGA) Tail Extension to easily and cost effectively extend your NGA coverage.

What's happening?

To enable you to serve more customers in the point of interconnection areas, without having to buy additional backhaul, from mid July 2016 you will be able to use NGA Tail Extension service to serve multiple NGA coverage areas from a single UFB handover connection; providing national NGA services with as little as five UFB handover connections.

What's the detail?

In December 2015, we announced our intention to offer NGA Tail Extension to make it easier and more cost-effective for you to offer NGA fibre services in smaller NGA coverage areas. As a result of your feedback, we’re now releasing the service as originally proposed.

Currently, you must have a UFB handover connection at 27 points of interconnection to provide service nationally. With NGA Tail Extension you can do it with only five by dividing New Zealand into five regions, where each region acts as a ‘super’ coverage area:

 Region Regional POIs Local POIs 

1 Auckland

Mayoral Drive
Glenfield
Mt Eden

Whangarei
Mayoral Drive
Glenfield
Mt Eden

2 Hamilton Hamilton

Rotorua
Taupo
Tauranga
Whakatane
Hamilton
Tokoroa
New Plymouth

3 Wellington 

Wellington
Porirua

Palmerston North
Levin
Wanganui
Napier
Hastings
Gisborne
Masterton
Paraparaumu
Wellington
Porirua 

4 Christchurch  Christchurch 

Nelson
Blenheim
Ashburton
Christchurch
Greymouth
Timaru 

5 Dunedin 

Dunedin
Dunedin South 

Dunedin
Dunedin South
Oamaru
Queenstown
Invercargill 

Regional points of interconnection will be expanded upon over time.

The NGA pricing is based on a single step as follows:

Maximum bandwidth S Step A Step 

High Traffic Class CIR (per1 Mbps)$ 0.00$ 2.00

Low Traffic Class EIR 10-200 Mbps $ 0.00$ 2.59

Low Traffic Class EIR 200-1000 Mbps $ 0.00$ 3.89

Voice$ 0.00$ 2.00

Where:

• S is where the NGA Tail is delivered to the local point of interconnection (no Tail Extension)
• A is where the NGA Tail is delivered to the Regional point of interconnection
• Price is based on the maximum of upstream and downstream bandwidth, per traffic class
• Each voice or bitstream service within an offer can have Tail Extension Service configured separately
• For NGA Evolve primary offers the first 2.5/2.5 Mbps high traffic class bandwidth is included in the low traffic class pricing, with additional high traffic class as per the rate table above.

Please note:

• The target launch date is 18th July 2016. We will confirm this date via Informer closer to the time
• An updated rate card showing connection, recurring and tail extension charges is available on our customer website. For private offers, please contact your Account Manager
• A draft NGA Tail Extension Service Description will be provided at the May Product Forum for consultation and will be available from your Account Manager on request.

Who should I contact?

For more information please contact your Account Manager.