Vorco NZ incident

Unplanned Event - Backhaul Outage

Resolved after 1 hour 11 minutes, affecting Core Network and Internet & WAN Access, on May 2, 2026.

resolved May 02, 2026, 10:19 AM UTC

Full resolution confirmed at 2140. The fault was caused by an issue with the cooling fan card in the router.

Started
May 02, 2026, 09:08 AM UTC
Resolved
May 02, 2026, 10:19 AM UTC
Duration
1h 11m
Detected by Pingoru
May 02, 2026, 09:08 AM UTC

Affected components

Core NetworkInternet & WAN Access

Update timeline

  1. identified May 02, 2026, 09:08 AM UTC

    Start Time: 2049 Service(s) Affected: Northpower, Tuatahi and Enable fibre services Customer Impact: Loss of connectivity A backhaul vendor has suffered a hardware failure which is impacting links between Auckland and the above fibre networks. We'll update this as soon as we have more details or an ETR. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

  2. monitoring May 02, 2026, 09:53 AM UTC

    The affected router was restored at 2140 and we are seeing impacted customers come back online now. We’ll update this incident once we have clearance notification to confirm full resolution.

  3. resolved May 02, 2026, 10:19 AM UTC

    Full resolution confirmed at 2140. The fault was caused by an issue with the cooling fan card in the router.

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