Limerick telecoms provider to increase web availability

PLASSEY-BASED telecoms provider Enet has announced a major deal which will see it improve the broadband availability to nearly a quarter of the population.

Based in the National Technology Park, Enet operates around 5,600km of network infrastructure across Ireland.
It also runs one of the largest licensed wireless networks in the country.

Now the firm has another string to its bow after adding a five-year deal with National Broadband Ireland (NBI) to provide further infrastructure nationwide.

The firm is working on behalf of the government to provide the infrastructure for new high-speed internet through the National Broadband Plan.

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Enet is providing what is known as ‘backhaul networks’ to various points in the country.

Backhaul networking refers to the infrastructure that connects a local network, or subnetwork, to a backbone or core network in terms of mobile and internet connectivity.

Chief executive of Enet Peter McCarthy 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, the chief executive 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 Limited, an operationally focused specialist digital infrastructure investor.

It 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.