Ethernet Handover

Specific unbundled services available over handover links are:

• Unbundled Bitstream Service (UBS)
• Basic Unbundled Bitstream Access (Basic UBA)
• Enhanced Unbundled Bitstream Access (Enhanced UBA), in accordance with the timetable set out in the UBA Standard Terms Determination (STD)
• High Speed Network Services (HSNS)
• Unbundled Partial Circuits (UPC).

Technical constraints mean that not all unbundled services can be delivered over a shared handover link.

A handover link has two components:

• Handover connection – from the handover point to the Optical Fibre Distribution Frame (OFDF) in the exchange where the handover point is located
• Handover fibre – from the OFDF to the service provider’s equipment.

We can provide both components, or can provide just a handover connection and the service provider supplies the handover fibre.

A service provider can request a handover link at any of Chorus’s handover points.
Please note that the distance between Chorus and service provider’s equipment is limited to a 5km radius from the handover point.

Service provider equipment needs to be ‘carrier grade’ quality, compliant with all relevant standards for interfaces and protocol interactions between Chorus and service provider networks.