A major new fibre link between Britain and Ireland has been announced. ESB Telecoms Limited (ESBT) and Geo Networks Limited have connected 1,300km of Irish fibre to a UK fibre network via a subsea cable known as Emerald Bridge Fibres Cable.
Connecting ESBT’s network to Geo Networks’ East-West Ring, the new link provides businesses either side with high speed, direct connectivity through a single supplier. Using the shortest subsea route and most modern fibre technology, the owners say that it provides virtually limitless capacity and best in class low latency bandwidth, future-proofed and 100Gbps capable for even the most demanding of requirements.
The companies said that the new link is a response to growing demand for high capacity, scalable bandwidth between the UK and Ireland. The new fibre link is specifically optimised for heavy data users such as data centre operators, mobile and fixed line carriers, cloud providers and the digital, financial and high tech sectors. A number of multinational customers are reported to have already signed up to use the service.
"The new fibre connection to the UK is a natural extension of ESB Telecom’s existing fibre network," said John McSweeney, head of Innovation at ESB. "Companies based here can now directly connect to over 100 data centres and key internet exchanges in London and elsewhere in the UK through a single supplier. This is a huge boost to Ireland’s communications infrastructure, which will help to attract high growth, data intensive companies to locate here".
"We are delighted to have completed the first fully diverse, Anglo-Irish cable system," said Chris Smedley, chief executive, Geo Networks. "The new cable completes Geo’s East-West Ring, which will allow customers on both sides of the Irish Sea to benefit from a single service provider offering a combination of two routes between the UK and Ireland. This diversity will provide unequalled resilience, unmatched in service availability."
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