- 32 regional and rural Points of Presence facilitated with 10GB connectivity
- Move will enable NBI to meet goal of delivering the new future-proofed, high-speed Fibre-to-the-Home network under the National Broadband Plan on behalf of the Government
Enet, Ireland’s largest open access telecoms network provider, has announced a significant five-year deal with National Broadband Ireland (NBI), to provide backhaul to 32 regional and rural Point of Presence (PoPs) around the country.
The connectivity, multiple 10GB links, is seen as an enabler for NBI’s nationwide delivery of a new future proofed, high-speed Fibre-to-the-Home network under the National Broadband Plan on behalf of the Government.
NBI currently benefits from Enet’s unique backhaul infrastructure’s resilience, meaning there will be no disruption to the current connectivity to customers in rural areas. Enet’s robust bandwidth capacity will grow and improve throughout the five-year deal, enhancing broadband services to nearly one quarter (23%) of Ireland’s population.
Peter McCarthy, CEO of Enet, says: “Enet are confident that we are best positioned to continue to provide a first-class national backhaul network to NBI. This is a significant opportunity to continue our successful working relationship with NBI, maintaining our current infrastructure to benefit NBI’s national customer base, as well as our expanding network, to meet any of NBI’s future requirements.”
Peter Hendrick, CEO of National Broadband Ireland, says: “Our rollout is currently delivering high-speed fibre access to 10,000 premises every month, and as internet traffic continues to grow, and take-up on the NBI network goes from strength to strength, this deal enables NBI for the future, and gives us control over critical elements of our network architecture.”
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Enet operates the largest alternative wholesale telecoms network in Ireland, which comprises of over 5,600 Km of fibre infrastructure, including the Irish State’s Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), proprietary metro networks, a unique dark fibre backhaul infrastructure, as well as one of the largest licensed wireless networks in the country.
Taken together, Enet’s infrastructure creates a fully integrated nationwide telecommunications network that is truly open access in nature, enabling retail service providers and network operators to deliver world class data connectivity services to their customers throughout Ireland and enabling them to connect internationally.
Enet also offers carriers a wide and innovative range of world-class fibre and wireless wholesale products and services, ranging from Managed Connectivity, Infrastructure Access, Direct Internet Access and white label broadband.
Enet is owned by Speed Fibre Group, which in turn is owned by Cordiant Digital Infrastructure Limited, an operationally focused specialist digital infrastructure investor. The business primarily invests in the core infrastructure of the digital economy – datacentres, fibre-optic networks and telecommunication and broadcast towers in Europe and North America. Further details about can be found here: www.cordiantdigitaltrust.com.