Viatel has won a significant portion of the HEAnet Post-Primary School’s 100Mb/s broadband contract to connect schools in Dublin, Kildare and Meath. Under this new contract Viatel will provide fully symmetrical and un-contended 100Mb/s access connections to 176 post-primary schools in the Dublin, Kildare and Meath region.
Viatel is one of Europe’s largest network owners and brings a range of new services to enterprise and wholesale customers in Ireland by offering very high capacity, low latency and cost effective connectivity solutions within Ireland and out to Europe and worldwide.
HEAnet is Ireland’s National Education and Research Network and provides cutting edge Internet and associated ICT and e-Infrastructure services to Educational and Research organisations throughout Ireland. Since 2005, as part of the Schools Broadband Programme, HEAnet has acted as network manager of a centralised Schools Network on behalf of the Department of Education & Skills. The Schools Network takes advantage of HEAnet’s high speed backbone and Internet connections.
Colm Piercy, CEO of Viatel (pictured), said: "One of the central planks of government policy is integrating ICT into teaching and learning at the earliest possible time at both primary and secondary education. In addition to providing high speed services in cities and urban areas, Viatel has been pioneering in the manner in which it has connected often rural and isolated schools to the broadband network, ensuring that all students, irrespective of their location, can avail of the benefits of high speed broadband access."
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