(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Submarine transport cable provider Hibernia Atlantic (www.hiberniaatlantic.com) announced on Tuesday it will build a new cable network for the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment for Northern Ireland and the Department Communications, Energy and Natural Resources for the Republic of Ireland.
The project is a part of Project Kelvin, a joint $40,458,530 million initiative between DETI and DCENR that is partiially funded through the EC INTERREG IVA program.
The new undersea cable will link Armagh, Ballymena, Belfast, Coleraine, Londonderry, Omagh, Portadown and Strabane to Europe and North America, as well as provide links to Letterkenny, Castleblayney, Dundalk, Drogheda and Monaghan.
The build marks the first time a telecommunications provider will deploy a cable from North America to this region.
Additionally, the cable will provide Northern Ireland and global companies alike with the capacity and ability to directly and securely connect to Canada, US, UK and mainland Europe.
With the company’s Irish network, Hibernia is able to bring bandwidth both fast and effectively to North America, avoiding the otherwise congested routes around London and New York waterways.
The cable will connect to Hibernia’s existing network by installing a branching unit in its northern transAtlantic cable. The build will provide a secure route from Northern Ireland to Canada and the US and another from Northern Ireland into the UK.
As a result, this will be the only diverse cable system to provide secure circuits between Europe and Ireland with a protected ring between Ireland and the UK, via London, Manchester and Southport.
The submarine cable will also be linked to an international carrier hotel or telehouse facility in Coleraine, which will provide further access to other service providers and Hibernia Atlantic’s new network points of presence.
Hibernia will also complete a cross-border build linking its existing communications network into the Northwest of Ireland, reducing transAtlantic data latency and the cost of international communications.
Hibernia offers a detailed look at its new Northern Ireland network on its website.
As Northern Ireland businesses compete more for business in global markets, the new underwater cable will deliver the kind of international telecommunications that companies located in London, Amsterdam, Dublin and New York already rely on.
“The new telecommunications infrastructure announced today carries special significance to me as it will facilitate unmatched communications throughout the island of Ireland and between Ireland, North America and the rest of Europe in a way my ancestors could not have imagined,” says Kenneth D. Peterson, Jr., chairman of the board of Hibernia Atlantic and Columbia Ventures. “We are pleased to be chosen to make this state-of-the-art network available and we look forward to driving further commerce and capacity into this area.”
Through its transAtlantic submarine and terrestrial cable network, and over 55 redundant network POP throughout Canada, US, UK and Europe, Hibernia Atlantic provides dedicated Ethernet and optical-level service and LanPhy wavelengths and traditional Sonet/SDH services.
In other recent news relating to undersea cables, last week another break occurred on one of the undersea cables during the repair of three other undersea cables in the Mediterranean that were cut last month.
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