Ultrafast Fibre
Ultrafast Fibre is a New Zealand fibre network operator that builds and operates open-access wholesale fibre infrastructure for retail service providers and enterprise customers.
- Open-access wholesale fibre network services for internet and data connectivity
- Layer 1 and Layer 2 fibre access for retail service providers and carriers
- Enterprise and government connectivity services over fibre infrastructure
- Network design, deployment, and management across defined coverage regions
- Support for high-bandwidth applications such as cloud access, unified communications, and data transport
More About Ultrafast Fibre
Ultrafast Fibre operates as a wholesale fibre network provider in New Zealand, supplying fibre-based access services to retail service providers, carriers, and large organizations. Its core role is to deliver layer 1 (physical fibre) and layer 2 (data link) services that underlie retail broadband, enterprise Wide Area Network (WAN), and dedicated connectivity offerings. The company focuses on an open-access model, where multiple service providers can use the same underlying fibre infrastructure to create differentiated retail and enterprise services.
For enterprise and institutional environments, Ultrafast Fibre provides connectivity that supports use cases such as site-to-site links, access to public and private cloud environments, and bandwidth-intensive workloads including collaboration tools, IP voice, and video conferencing. The infrastructure is typically based on GPON or related Passive Optical Network (PON) architectures (access networking), and Ethernet-based layer 2 services (data networking). These services enable symmetric high-throughput connections and low-latency links suitable for corporate offices, healthcare providers, educational institutions, and local government entities within the network’s coverage areas.
The company’s offerings can be categorized into several areas: wholesale fibre access (broadband access), enterprise-grade fibre connectivity (enterprise networking), and backhaul or carrier services (carrier networking). Wholesale fibre access serves residential and Server Message Block (SMB) markets indirectly through retail service providers, while enterprise-grade connectivity targets larger organizations needing higher capacity, more predictable performance, or dedicated links. Backhaul and carrier services provide capacity between network nodes and support other operators who need to extend their own networks over Ultrafast Fibre’s infrastructure.
Ultrafast Fibre’s services use widely adopted technologies and protocols such as Ethernet, Virtual LAN (VLAN) tagging (IEEE 802.1Q), and standard IP-based traffic transport, enabling interconnection with carrier networks, data centres, and cloud on-ramps. The open-access model supports multiple ISPs and telecommunications providers, which can integrate Ultrafast Fibre’s access and backhaul services into their own OSS/BSS environments and service portfolios. This approach aligns the company with marketplace categories such as wholesale connectivity, fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) infrastructure, and enterprise access networking.
From a directory perspective, Ultrafast Fibre fits into fibre infrastructure, wholesale telecommunications, and enterprise connectivity service categories. Its current solution areas include fibre-based broadband access for retail providers (wholesale networking), dedicated enterprise and institutional links (enterprise networking), and carrier backhaul and interconnect services (carrier networking). These offerings provide the physical and data-link foundation on which ISPs, cloud providers, and enterprises build higher-layer services, including managed WAN, Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN), security, and collaboration platforms.