CeltixConnect, provider of Europe’s most advanced subsea telecommunications network, today announced it has been awarded subsea consent, in the United Kingdom, for the deployment of Europe’s most modern subsea telecoms cable linking Ireland and the UK.
The consent was awarded by DEFRA (Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) following detailed consultation with vested interests in the UK and marks a significant milestone in the deployment of the first European telecoms cable in over a decade.
Diane Hodnett , Chief Executive Officer, CeltixConnect said: “ The awarding of the consent brings to a conclusion over two years of work and puts us on target to go live with the Celtix cable in June, 2011. Recently we have seen an even greater escalation in demand for resilient, higher capacity communications. CeltixConnect, through its most technically advanced infrastructure, will be uniquely positioned to deliver the platform necessary to underpin the growth of video, social and business networks, the burgeoning gaming industry and the unprecedented adoption of cloud computing . ”
The CeltixConnect cable lands in the heart of Dublin’s business district at East Point Business Park and the Irish Financial Services Centre (IFSC), connecting from there to the T50, Dublin’s major metropolitan network that links all key business districts, datacentres and business parks. Ireland’s continued success in attracting digital services foreign direct investment is dependent on its ability to deliver on the fundamentals of high capacity communications infrastructure – the most critical of which is a modern subsea cable capable of transporting content and data in and out of the country securely and at the highest speeds.
In the UK, the privately owned carrier neutral subsea cable lands at Porth Dafarch, North Wales and will have the ability to connect to the Welsh Assembly Government funded ‘’FibreSpeed’’, an open access fibre-optic network that connects Holyhead to Manchester, and with a number of other major fibre-optic networks that connect into London and onto mainland Europe and Asia -Pacific.
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Source: celtixconnect ,March 10, 2011;