Tagged: Fibre Networks & News
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Vodafone to acquire Cable & Wireless Worldwide for stg£1.04bn News
23.04.2012 Vodafone Group will acquire Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW), which owns the UK’s largest fibre network, for stg£1.04bn in order to strengthen its enterprise business and for...Categories: Networks, Networking & Telecoms, Networking, Mergers & Acquisitions, Deals Done, Communications -
2011 – the year Ireland became ‘home of the cloud’ News
22.12.2011 During the summer I was driving around Cork, rushing between meetings, and a crazy thought struck me. Nevermind Ireland’s pitch to be the ‘internet capital of Europe’, it is... -
Intelligent networks: telecoms’ future glistens brightly News
13.10.2011 At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona two years ago, various CEOs of telecoms companies told the then-CEO of Google Eric Schmidt there was an anxiety in the telecoms... -
Three's €38m contract with BT will provide 100MB broadband speeds News
05.05.2011 Three has made a €38m contract with BT to see BT’s fibre network rolled out across Ireland, letting Three customers access up to 100MB per second broadband speeds. -
‘Collaboration between telecom networks is the future, but it will be a hard nut to crack’ News
12.08.2010 Eircom CEO Paul Donovan says the operator has a vital role in defining Ireland’s economic destiny.Tags: TIF 2010 - The Next Economy, Eircom, TIF, Meteor, FTTH, Fibre Networks, LTE, Broadband, Digital Britain -
Deals done this past week News
03.08.2010 An overview of the week in deals in the Irish technology sector, including Disney’s purchase of social gaming company Playdom, and First Derivatives’ contract with the Singapore...Categories: Social Media, Security, Online Business, Mobile, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Deals DoneTags: Flash, Online Gaming, WiMax, Imagine , Clearwire, RSA, New Media, McAfee, Fibre Networks, E-net, MANs, Juniper Networks, Smartphones, Disney, Social Gaming, First Derivatives, Gamestop -
Race for fibre leadership: Ireland’s Exemplar Network could give us edge News
22.07.2010 Data usage on the web, mainly video, is exploding and traditional networks won’t be able to keep up.Tags: IBM, Communications, EMC, Intune Networks, Eamon Ryan TD, Cisco, Fibre Networks, Exemplar Network, comms -
World’s fastest fibre-to-home network concept unveiled News
11.09.2009 A Cork research lab has revealed the world’s most advanced fibre-to-the-home network concept which pushes the typical span of a fibre network from 20km to 100km and eliminates... -
BT to accelerate super-fast fibre rollout News
10.07.2009 BT has revealed that over 1.5 million homes in the UK and Northern Ireland will have super-fast fibre broadband by early summer 2010. BT is investing over £1.5bn sterling in its...Categories: Comms -
Ireland needs to deepen its fibre infrastructure News
09.07.2009 The CEO of E-net, the firm that is now responsible for Ireland’s Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) in 94 towns, says that the 60 additional MANs will complete a significant part...Categories: Comms, Government -
UPC is building a 120Mbps next-gen broadband network News
30.04.2009 Cable broadband player UPC Ireland is planning to introduce 120Mbps broadband in the coming year under a project codenamed Fibre Power. -
Complete to invest €3m-€4m in 200km fibre network News
08.02.2008 Rapidly growing, business focused telecoms firm Complete Networks is to invest between €3m and €4m in the year ahead rolling out 200km of fibre networks to reach businesses...Tags: E-net, Fibre Networks