18 November 2019
Chorus’ Hyperfibre set to redefine ‘fast’ for broadband in New Zealand
New Zealanders to be given 59 hours back* with exponential speed increase
A new era of broadband speed is planned, with Chorus today unveiling Hyperfibre - its next generation of fibre
technology.
Using a XGS-PON fibre solution, Hyperfibre is set to dramatically increase capacity and unlocks the ability to deliver
exponential speeds on the Chorus fibre network of up to 10 Gbps.
Hyperfibre speeds of 2Gbps and 4Gbps are planned initially, with an 8Gbps service in the future. The planned services
will be symmetric, with the same speeds for both download and upload, which are expected to save Kiwi consumers and
businesses an estimated 59 hours* on average each year.
With these speeds New Zealand would become one of only 10 countries in the world to deploy broadband faster than GPON
and the first in the Southern Hemisphere.
Ed Hyde, Chorus’ Chief Customer Officer says following the release of gigabit services in 2016, Hyperfibre further
illustrates the near limitless potential of our fibre network and can enable a new era of high-capacity creativity, innovation and efficiency.
“With uploads and downloads happening in a blink of an eye, we can expect time and productivity savings across the
board, especially for customers who transfer large amounts of data, such as creative industries.
“The exceptionally low latency of Hyperfibre will also offer new ways to collaborate and the potential to revolutionise
digital business models. Obvious advocates will be those using high performance software applications that depend on
real-time communication and high-resolution images, such as remote medical diagnostics and surgery, instantaneous
software prototyping, as well as gaming and interactive entertainment services.”
Mariano Segedin, Head of Operations at Augusto, a hybrid creative and production agency that has been trialling
Hyperfibre products, says the hyper connectivity has been critical to the workflow and growth of their New York office
and client base.
“Given the nature of our business, we constantly find ourselves transferring large video files to offices across the
globe. Having trialled Hyperfibre services, a 1 TB file (1,000 Gb) that would ordinarily take 12 hours to
download/upload, now takes just 18 minutes.”
As the majority of the infrastructure is already in place the intention is to release Hyperfibre services on a
region-by-region basis from February 2020.
In the meantime customers can register their interest and receive updates on the availability of the new Hyperfibre
speeds at www.chorus.co.nz/hyperfibre
*Yearly estimate is based on the average per user connection speed and data consumed for September 2019 across the
Chorus network compared with maximum Hyperfibre 4000 connection speeds.
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