NEWS & BUSINESS
enet nets UK fibre presence
enet, Ireland’s largest open-access network
planned over the next 12 months, as well as over 76 UK on-net commercial data centres and over 2,000 PoPs from other players in the market. The UK network deal is the latest in a series of investments undertaken by enet and its parent, Granahan McCourt Capital. These include investing more than €100 million in access fibre deployments, metro fibre acquisition and construction, core fibre rollouts, as well as Gigabit wireless network integration.
operator, has made its first entry into the UK market with a strategic network partnership with the UK’s SSE Enterprise Telecoms. Under the terms of the tie-up, enet will utilise SSE Enterprise Telecoms’ full range of dark fibre, Carrier Ethernet and optical networking services, across 13,700 km of national network. Additionally, enet also gains access to over 265 Points of Presence (PoPs), with further expansion
enet already operate over 5,000km of fibre infrastructure, including the Irish State’s Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) and one of the largest licensed wireless networks in the country.
US FTTH organisation rebrands as Fiber Broadband Association
Gold. “Modernising our brand acknowledges this evolution and brings a new sense of excitement into our effort to represent an industry, inclusive of other fibre-supported technologies with a common goal of building the world’s fastest-growing technology platform for consumers, businesses and innovation.”
all aspects of its public image. “The Fiber Broadband Association represents members that are building the world’s highest-performing fibre optic broadband networks for consumers at home, businesses and the critical role fibre plays supporting new and emerging technologies” said Burnett
and makeup of the industry it represents. The new brand and descriptor is “Fiber Broadband Association, accelerating the connected future” and will be the association’s formal name in
FTTH Council Americas President and CEO Heather Burnett Gold has announced that the association has launched a modernised brand that it believes will better reflect the evolution
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