Enet announces five-year deal with National Broadband Ireland
Open access telecoms network provider Enet has announced a five-year deal with National Broadband Ireland (NBI), to provide backhaul to 32 regional and rural point of presence (PoP) around the country.
This new infrastructure is 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, said: “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, said: “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.”
Enet is owned by Speed Fibre Group, which in turn is owned by Cordiant Digital Infrastructure, an operationally focused specialist digital infrastructure investor. The business primarily invests in the core infrastructure of the digital economy – data centres, fibre-optic networks and telecommunication and broadcast towers in Europe and North America.
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