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ince the early 2000s there has been no real investment in submarine infrastructure between the UK and Ireland. The available capacity was always seen as been more than capable of carrying the traffic that was needed to power the communications
and Cable & Wireless/Vodafone. All of these companies could offer a fully managed service from Ireland to anywhere in Europe and beyond. As a managed service it would be the operator who decided the routing and networks it would transverse
companies could offer capacity, on their own networks across Europe. The other telecommunication companies could also offer the same level of communication traffic but not as a single entity managing their own network end to end. All this capacity, whether
operators offering 40Gb and the hope that the leap to offering 100Gb was just around the corner. One of the main Irish operators had introduced 100Gb channels on its network in 2013 with a quick introduction of 500Gb superchannels shortly
networks across Ireland and the links to Europe and beyond. These links were provided by the main players in Ireland who had optical submarine cables connecting to the UK and the US, they are BT, Eircom, Level 3, Hibernia Networks, Virgin Media
however, there were only three telecommunication companies, with terminations in Ireland that could provide a single network managed solution on their own network they had a footprint that stretched far beyond the UK and into Europe. These three
it is by any of the above operators, was on a managed solution. However the idea of dark fibre was not favoured but sometimes used, where the need required it.
afterwards, enabling the operator to offer capacity that meet the bandwidth capacity requirements that were being sought. However this higher bandwidth capability was all based upon the drive capability of the managed network which
The average channel bandwidth available was 10Gb with some