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
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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.
Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen
Is all of this terrestrial network already in place?
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
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http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com
Wireless: 1-212-444-8829.
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Martin Hannigan wrote:
Is all of this terrestrial network already in place?
I understand that it isn't yet, but that it can be built out relatively
quickly.
Nick
It can be done very quickly. We've committed to fast delivery.
The terrestrial conduit and fibre is ready to go ...
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.beck@hiberniaatlantic.com
rodbeck@erols.com
``Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.'' Albert Einstein.