Enet, a wholesale broadband company in Ireland has announced substantial investment in fibre network connecting and further integrating the Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) into a national telecommunications platform.
The backhaul project is the latest investment undertaken by enet and its parent, Granahan McCourt Capital, bringing total investment to over €100 million since the specialist Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) investment firm acquired the open-access network operator in late 2013.
The national backhaul network, which is now live and fully operational, includes over 3700 km of high-capacity-fibre-count cabling and connects 55 towns such as Ballina, Roscommon, Tralee and Kilkenny. This announcement marks a major breakthrough in providing a top class, open access broadband network throughout the country. It also means that enet will be in the position to offer MAN customers access to higher speeds as well as greater network reliability.
Conal Henry, CEO of Enet
The investment in a national backhaul network gives us access to dark fibre for the vast majority of our traffic sources and offers us a far greater flexibility of how we design and deliver our services to the benefit of our 70 operator customers and their end-users.
