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Fibre Access

Why Fibre?

Fibre is a powerful and essential infrastructure that enables you to deliver services which shift the way your business works. Taking advantage of the rollout of fibre across New Zealand will help you boost productivity, improve flexibility and robustness, increase the speed of innovation, and cut costs.

Why Gen-i?

At Gen-i we have the expertise and assets to help you leverage this robust technology today. We are the only provider that can integrate fibre into a hybrid end-to-end national network combining fibre, copper and mobile, as well as construct networks using fibre from multiple providers. We also provide the exciting applications and services that leverage this new fibre world including:

Cloud computing
Videoconferencing and TelePresence
Remote access
Unified Collaboration Tools
Virtual contact centres
VoIP

Gen-i ICT Conference 2012 Industry leaders

International connectivity

Copper versus Fibre

Data caps

Legal boundary to the premise

New Plymouth fibre details

Two fibre companies, one city

New Gen-i services

Increase in productivity & GDP

Homes pre-wire for Copper or Fibre?

Technology changes over 5 years

During the Gen-i annual nationwide ICT conference industry leaders from around the country gathered together on a panel to answer your most pressing questions. Clients found these panel sessions invaluable – click on the videos above to see why. Among the experts were:

Chris Quin, CEO Gen-i Australasia
Chris Sharpe, New Plymouth Area Manager, Gen-i
Mike Bullock, Sales Manager NI, Gen-i
Paul Deavoll, Head of Regional SI Sales, Gen-i
Steve Mills, GM Corporate Clients, Gen-i
Craig Young , Head of Industry Relations, Chorus
Chris Dyhrberg, GM Network Build, Chorus
Steve Fuller, CEO Enable
Dr. Bernard Lee, Senior Consultant Broadband, Huawei
Shane Hobson, Retailer Relations, Ultra Fast Fibre

Case Studies

Burgerfuel

NZ Oil Services

Colorite

McKechnie Aluminium

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Gen-i extends relationship with Fletcher building with new TelePresence contract

Quick facts about Gen-i and fibre:

98% of our existing fibre tails are already within the UFB zone (204 exchanges)
Over 1,500 of our corporate clients are using fibre-based or a hybrid of fibre and copper based services today.
About 25 per cent of our data services are currently being delivered over fibre, with the rest over copper.

Most corporate locations will be covered by fibre by 2014 and we expect strong uptake to continue, with a significant proportion of client networks migrating to fibre connections in the next two years.

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