Airfibre delivers high quality B2B connectivity in Cork city

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25 March 2013

Airfibre has made available business to business (B2B), uncontended, symmetrical Internet connectivity services in Cork city and its surrounds.

Based on carrier-grade wireless communications technology that is deployed at two high-rise points of presence to provide extensive coverage across the area, the service claims a 99.95% service level agreement, with 24 x 7 x 365 engineering support.

The service leverages presence at the Cork Internet Exchange, from where Airfibre provides connectivity to the World Wide Web through direct relationships with Tier 1 Global Transit Providers. All circuits are fully symmetrical, according to Airfibre, and are uncontended through to the point of lay off to the Web.

Airfibre is offering connectivity services at data rates from 1Mbps to 1Gbps.

"With Airfibre," said John Earley, CEO, Airfibre, "customers get all of the bandwidth they pay for without compromise and a service quality that is equivalent to a fibre-optic leased line as supplied by traditional Telcos such as Eircom and BT that are ideally suited to latency sensitive applications such as Voice Over IP, multi-media Citrix, VMWare, etc"

Whilst accepting that wireless is predominantly employed for last-mile connectivity, Earley stressed that use of this technology is not what sets Airfibre apart. "We have industry leading expertise and understand how to deliver a ‘fibre experience’ using wireless last-mile; but the key to Airfibre services is the investment we make in the core network that others typically short-circuit. Airfibre owns and manages its own IP core, which means we have the wherewithal to deliver against the promises that we make."

Airfibre’s core network is based upon a ‘pure IP’, Cisco MPLS infrastructure that can be used to extend private networks, with many users building private networks that connect offices in Ireland to others across the UK without having to cross the public Internet. This, the Airfibre claims, introduces a unique performance advantage at a price-point that smaller businesses can afford.

 

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