Tagged: Fibre
-
UK broadband speeds are 22pc faster than last year News
02.02.2012 Broadband speeds in the UK have shot up by 22pc on last year, a new survey by Ofcom reveals. Residential broadband speeds in November were 7.6Mbps, compared with 6.2Mbps a year... -
Fibre network crosses Irish Sea and lands in Wales News
01.02.2012 The CeltixConnect fibre gateway landed today at Porth Darfarch in Wales, connecting the financial centres of Ireland with those of London, Manchester and beyond. -
NI healthcare trust invests stg£350k in major IT overhaul News
26.01.2012 Northern Ireland-based South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust (SET) has completed a major stg£350,000 IT transformation that involves over 5,000 staff.Categories: CIO, Computers, Green Computing, Green Tech, Investments, IT Management, IT Organisation, Networking & Telecoms, Servers -
Ireland speeds up to 4G News
27.10.2011 Ireland’s wireless spectrum bands will be put up for auction next year. As new 4G technologies like LTE arrive, will the country finally get decent broadband? -
Sea Fibre Networks deal with Colt opens a gateway to Europe News
10.01.2012 Sea Fibre Networks, the owner of brand new UK-Ireland fibre network CeltixConnect, has signed a deal with European telco Colt to connect Colt to its low-latency network. -
Mass communication – fibre enablesTyrone church to go global Christmas day News
23.12.2011 A Catholic church in Tyrone will be live streaming its Christmas masses to the diaspora around the world through the use of fibre broadband. -
5,000 digital healthcare jobs could be created in Ireland by 2020 News
15.12.2011 Some 5,000 new jobs could be created by 2020 if Ireland seizes the opportunity to establish an International Healthcare Services Centre, which would serve the global healthcare...Tags: Medical, Healthcare, IFSC, Fibre, Cloud, Data centres, Job Creation, IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, HP, IBM, Intel, Insurance, Supply Chain Management, Philips, -
Rollout of Ireland’s dark fibre network to generate 277 new jobs News
03.12.2011 Some 277 new jobs are to be created in the rollout of dark fibre across Ireland by PiPiper Infrastructure, which is deploying the infrastructure as part of an overall €88m... -
Hibernia Atlantic in fibre deal with Interxion News
21.11.2011 Transatlantic fibre cable provider Hibernia Atlantic is to host a point of presence for its cable system at Interxion’s DUB2 data centre. -
Hibernia Atlantic in fibre deal with Interxion News
22.11.2011 Transatlantic fibre cable provider Hibernia Atlantic is to host a point of presence for its cable system at Interxion’s DUB2 data centre. -
E-net selects Alcatel-Lucent to deploy €2m core network News
04.11.2011 E-net, the firm contracted by the Irish Government to manage the State’s Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) in 94 Irish towns, has awarded a €2m contract to Alcatel-Lucent to... -
Derry City first in UK, Ireland to upgrade to fibre broadband News
18.10.2011 All street cabinets serving customers in Derry City have been upgraded with fibre broadband, making it the first city in the UK and Ireland to reach this milestone. -
Department of Social Protection chooses BT for €9m network deal News
17.10.2011 The Department of Social Protection has awarded a five-year nationwide network infrastructure contract to BT in a deal worth close to €9m.Categories: CIO, Communications, Database, Deals Done, Government, Internet, Investments, Networking & Telecoms, Wireless Communications -
VDSL2 will accelerate availability of superfast broadband News
27.09.2011 Alcatel-Lucent’s new VDSL2 Vectoring technology will accelerate the availability of superfast broadband services, enabling speeds of 100Mbps and beyond over copper/fibre hybrid... -
Putting fibre in Ireland's comms diet News
26.09.2011 Ireland is finally about to get to grips with the deployment of next generation network infrastructure. Outgoing BT Ireland CEO Graham Sutherland welcomes this but urges greater... -
Alcatel-Lucent deploys fastest data network in Europe News
16.09.2011 Alcatel-Lucent and P&TLuxembourg have launched what is believed to be the fastest data network in Europe consisting of a 100Gbps IP connection between Frankfurt and Luxembourg. -
Magnet increases fibre broadband speed minimum to 30Mbps News
15.09.2011 Fibre broadband provider Magnet will today announce that download speeds for its fibre-to-the-home service will increase from a minimum of 5Mbps to 30Mbps with no additional...Categories: Telecommunications, Networking & Telecoms, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Communications, CIO -
Internet numbers drop and broadband growth slows in Ireland News
14.09.2011 Total internet connections in Ireland fell in the second quarter by around 7,000 subscribers to 1.662m in total. According to ComReg, broadband subscriptions grew slightly by... -
Ofcom bans long-term broadband and phone contracts News
13.09.2011 From December, landline and broadband contacts in the UK that automatically tie customers into long-term deals will be banned, British regulator Ofcom revealed today.Categories: Web, Telecommunications, Phones, Networking & Telecoms, Internet, Economy, Consumer Tech, Communications -
Second meeting of NGN Broadband Task Force today News
12.09.2011 The Next Generation Broadband Task Force chaired by the Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte, TD, will convene today for the second time since it was established in June.