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Chorus is going boost fibre plans for over 700,000 Kiwi homes – find out how we will technically deliver the upgrade and how you can get the best performance out of Chorus' services 😮‍💨#

NZNOG 2025 digest Program Adjacent pick 10–11 April 2025

Recording

Brent Marquis (Chorus)

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  • Why: A mass-change automation story: re-homing 700k+ live services to new speed tiers without customer impact, across a web of interlocking systems. The decoupling and migration-scripting techniques are what make it worth the PM's time, independent of the access-network specifics.
  • What: How Chorus will apply wholesale plan speed upgrades (50/10→100/20, 300/100→500/100 from June 2025) across its network without impacting live services, including how the network configuration enables the change, the process/scripts used for the service migration, and how RSPs and customers can extract best performance. (from abstract only)
  • How: Decoupling the network change from the surrounding in-flight work and systems interactions, using scripted service migration over a network configuration designed to tolerate live modification.
  • Where applicable: Org-specific in its details (Chorus's GPON wholesale systems), but the pattern — decouple, script, migrate at scale without customer-visible impact — transfers to any operator running mass service modifications.