Bandwith Fibre (BFAS)

Basically, we give you access to a managed bandwidth fibre service connecting customers to your equipment in the Chorus exchange. From this point you are free to create customised networks and provide world-class fibre infrastructure with three speed options: 100Mbps, 1Gbps and 10Gbps.

Our Bandwidth Fibre terminates on Chorus equipment with a RJ45 electrical interface beyond the external termination point (ETP) at your customers’ premises. At local exchanges, the fibre terminates on the main optical fibre distribution frame (MOFDs), but is extended via a tie cable to your footprint where Chorus equipment will be located.

Bandwidth Fibre has full restoration support when a fault is reported, but doesn’t include fault monitoring capability. It’s designed as a basic, entry-level service and has no equipment to limit data transfer speeds across the fibre. If you don’t have equipment in the nearest exchange, you can order our Intra Candidate Area Backhaul (ICABS) and Jumper services to connect to your equipment in another exchange.

Bandwidth Fibre is available within UFB¹ areas on the terms and conditions specified in the UFB services agreement, as well as business fibre areas².

It may be provided outside these areas on a voluntary basis, subject to resource availability. If you’d like to extend this service to equipment in a distant exchange, add ICABS. Installation services that we provide under Field Services can also be combined with this service.

1. The UFB areas are those where fibre has been laid as part of the Crown Fibre Holdings UFB fibre deployment.

2. Our business fibre area is an area defined by us where sufficient fibre capacity exists and installation charges are fixed.

Bandwidth Fibre is a managed bandwidth fibre service from your customers’ premises to a local Chorus exchange or your own data centre.

• The options are a POI, or colocation at a local or remote Chorus exchange.
• For a remote exchange you will require our ICABS and jumper services.
• You can take the service to your own data centre by ordering both jumper and bandwidth fibre.

Here are some of the key service levels for Bandwidth Fibre. A full list can be found in the service level terms.

Pricing for Bandwith Fibre is published in the Bandwidth Fibre service description.

You can order Bandwidth Fibre via a manual process in our self-service portal. See the operations manual for more information.