Actually, it is a big deal. Hibernia is already the only cable system that can send Irish traffic directly to North American without backhauling to the UK. That's a significantly latency and diversity advantage.
We can now send traffic directly to the US on both cables without UK backhaul and hence provide more physical diversity. It also enables us to serve an underserved market, Northern Ireland, and provide low latency and protected services betweeen the UK and Ireland. And we beat the who-whos of telecom in winning this RFP. :) Regards, Roderick S. Beck Director of European Sales Hibernia Atlantic 13-15, rue Sedaine, 75011 Paris http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com Wireless: 1-212-444-8829. French Landline: 33+1+4355+8224 French Wireless: 33-6-14-33-48-97. AOL Messenger: GlobalBandwidth rod.b...@hiberniaatlantic.com rodb...@erols.com ``Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.'' Albert Einstein. -----Original Message----- From: Martin Hannigan [mailto:mar...@theicelandguy.com] Sent: Tue 1/6/2009 11:20 AM To: Martin List-Petersen Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: [SPAM-HEADER] - Re: Northern Ireland undersea branch to be implemented - Email has different SMTP TO: and MIME TO: fields in the email addresses On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Martin List-Petersen <mar...@airwire.ie>wrote: > Martin Hannigan wrote: > > Hibernia has been busy. > > > > "THE COMMUNICATIONS minister Eamon Ryan and the North's Enterprise > Minister > > Arlene Foster have announced the awarding of a £30 million (?32 million) > > contract to construct a new direct telecommunications link to North > America > > that will benefit Northern Ireland and the Republic" > > > > http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/0106/1230936699678.html > > > > That's just a spur from the existing Hibernia Atlantic fibre that goes > from Halifax to Dublin. In my opinion, that should have been done from > the very beginning. > > Is all of this terrestrial network already in place? http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/maps/HA_NIreland_Routes.pdf -- Martin Hannigan mar...@theicelandguy.com p: +16178216079
