ESB Telecoms Limited (ESBT) in partnership with Geo Networks Limited, a leading UK fibre network provider, have announced the completion of a new optical fibre cable which directly links Irish businesses with major UK cities for the first time.

The new cable connects ESBT's existing 1,300km fibre network in Ireland with Geo‘s extensive UK fibre network, and forms a critical link in Geo's new East-West Ring, the newest diverse optical ring between Ireland and the UK.

The new 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, future-proofed and 100Gbps capable for even the most demanding of requirements.

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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.

"We are committed to leveraging our capability and assets to deliver value for customer," 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."

(CD)