Cork will become a global IP switching centre with fibre connectivity routing high speed Internet traffic to and from USA, UK, Europe and Asia according to an announcement at the Cork Internet eXchange (CIX) and it@cork event at County Hall today.
The ambitious plans to “break out” fibre connectivity in Cork from the US, mainland Europe and potentially Toyko-London fibre project were met with unanimous support from it@cork, Host in Ireland, Cork Chamber, Enterprise Ireland and more than 120 business attendees.
The Hibernia Networks “Express Project”, which will connect Cork and the South of Ireland directly to the US, has been progressing to schedule and the subsea cable will land in Cork in early June 2015. It will be terminated at the Cork Internet eXchange and go into active service in September 2015.
The Minister for Data Protection Dara Murphy T.D. said that this announcement “had the potential to attract major global business opportunities for Cork, positively impacting jobs and providing Cork with the lowest latency to USA and Europe which would be a unique selling point over other international regions.”
Source: www.businessworld.ie