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ESB Telecoms completes subsea fibre optic cable
directly linking Irish businesses to major UK cities
8 ESB Telecoms Limited (ESBT) in partnership with
Geo Networks Limited, a leading UK fibre network
provider, recently completed a new optical fibre cable
that directly links Irish businesses with major UK cities.
The new cable connects ESBT's existing fibre network
in Ireland with Geo's extensive UK fibre network.
THIS SUBSEA cable, known as the
Emerald Bridge Fibres Cable, will
provide customers with an end-to-end
fibre solution, allowing businesses in
Ireland and the UK to connect directly through a single supplier. Using
the shortest subsea route and most
modern fibre technology, it provides
virtually limitless capacity and best in
class low latency bandwidth, futureproofed and 100Gbps capable for even
the most demanding of requirements.
Responding to growing demand
for high capacity, scalable bandwidth between the UK and Ireland,
the new fibre link is specifically
optimised for heavy data users
such as data centre operators, mobile and fixed line carriers, cloud
providers and the digital, financial
and high tech sectors.
A number of multinational customers have already signed up to
use the service. n
"We are committed to leveraging our capability and assets to
deliver value for customers," said
John McSweeney, Head of Innovation at ESB. "The new fibre
connection to the UK is a natural extension of ESB Telecom's
existing fibre network. Companies based here can now directly
connect to over 100 data centres and key internet exchanges
in London and elsewhere in the
UK through a single supplier.
This is a huge boost to Ireland's
communications infrastructure,
which will help to attract high
growth, data intensive companies to locate here.”
Geo Chief Executive, Chris
Smedley, added, "We are delighted to have completed the
first fully diverse, Anglo-Irish
cable system. The combination
of network reach in the UK and
Ireland, our commercial model,
10 years of service excellence
and the design of this subsea
connection will provide what we
believe is the preferred choice
for organisations looking to prioritise low latency, unlimited
bandwidth and reducing their
total cost of ownership.
"The new cable completes
Geo's East-West Ring, which
allows customers on both sides
of the Irish Sea to benefit from
a single service provider offering
a combination of two routes between the UK and Ireland. This
diversity will provide unequalled
resilience, unmatched in service
availability." n
■ ESB International hosts
annual conference
ESB International’s annual
conference was held in Croke
Park on Friday December
14th
■ Tanzania lights up
(l-r): Rory McGowan General Manager, ESB
Telecoms and Mike Angier, Chief Operating
Office, Geo Networks.
(l-r): Rory McGowan and Mike Angier, Tina
Pittock, Project Manager ESB Telecoms;
Chris Smedley, Chief Executive, Geo
Networks; Michelle Montayne, Account
Manager ESB Telecoms and Joe Barrett,
Project Director Geo Networks.
SSE Generation awarded ESBI a contract
to provide Owner’s Engineer Consultancy
Support Services to the Great Island
460MW CCGT Project.
ESBI
IN KEEPING with ESBI’s strategy
of increased growth in international
and home markets, the following
are some recent contract wins:
• ESB International has been awarded a contract by SSE Generation for
the provision of Owner’s Engineer
Consultancy Support Services to
(l-r): Denis O’Leary, Manager Smart Energy
Technologies; Tom Bambury, Business
Development Energy Services; Joe Barrett
Project Director Geo Networks, Mike Angier and
Chris Smedley, Chief Executive Geo Networks.
of UK and Ireland conferences
Members of the Ocean Energy Team speaking at conferences in February include
(l-r):Technology Manager John Fitzgerald, Ocean Energy Manager Brendan Barry and
Technology Integration Engineer Fergus Sharkey.
8 Renewable UK, the annual
wave and tidal power generation conference of the ocean
energy industry, takes place on
Wednesday and Thursday February 27th and 28th.
THE LONDON event will show-
Since 2008, ESB International
is delivering engineering
consultancy services to a
project which aims to advance
the long-term development of
the energy infrastructure and
thereby improve the quality
of the lives of the people of
Tanzania.
■ Calculating the cost savings
of an ecar
Key objectives of the ecar
Ambassador programme are
to promote greater awareness
about electric cars, promote
the nationwide charging
infrastructure and collect
research data during the
course of the programme
■ Impressions of the Doha:
Climate Gateway
ESB International highlights Ocean Energy on the agenda
the Great Island 460MW CCGT
Project. First mobilisation of ESBI
staff took place in January 2013
and the company’s involvement will
continue to project completion in
mid-2014.
• ESB International has been appointed to the Northern Ireland
Electricity (NIE) High Voltage Substation Engineering Consultancy
Services Framework for a period of
three years.
• Contract negotiations were completed in January to develop and
provide consultancy services for the
design and implementation of a centralised call centre and marketing
department for Tanesco, Tanzania.
This project is funded by the World
Bank.
• A contract was signed in late December with EirGrid for the replacement of a transmission structure on
the Rafeen–Trabeg 110kV line. n
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case the industry’s achievements
over the past 12 months and ESB
Ocean Energy has been invited to
provide speakers for a number of
key sessions. Ocean Energy Manager Brendan Barry will speak
about the WestWave project and
ESBI Carbon Solutions
attended the recent
international conference on
climate change in order to
better understand the longterm regulatory implications
for ESB
ESB’s role in the sector at the
Strategic Initiative for Ocean Energy (SI-OCEAN) workshop. In
addition, Ocean Energy Technology Manager John Fitzgerald will
speak about the cost and performance requirements for ocean
energy.
In conjunction with these presentations, ESBI will have a presence in the exhibition area to
further promote awareness about
the services and expertise it offers to the wave and tidal power
sectors. n
Ocean Energy is participating in
other industry events in February
including a presentation by Fergus
Sharkey for the Midlands Engineers
Ireland group on the 25th and
by John Fitzgerald for the Belfast
IMechE group on the 13th.
The topic of both presentations
will be ‘Ocean Energy in Ireland’
with a focus on technical developments in recent years.
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