Hibernia Atlantic’s 40 Gbps TransAtlantic Capacity Announcement Gets Noticed
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It’s big news when you’re the first to offer a big pipe.
A fellow Telecom blogger, Rob Powell who writes the Telecom Ramblings blog, covered the recent announcement by Hibernia Atlantic’s 40 Gbps capability over its transAtlantic network. It is a significant announcement in that Hibernia Atlantic has now established itself as the fastest undersea cable connecting North America and Europe and the first transatlantic provider to offer a 40 Gbps network across the Atlantic.
With the growing needs of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), IPTV demands and requirements from enterprise businesses and financial companies to transact business more quickly, it is this type of speed that will enable the quality to do so – more efficiently.
Read more about it from:
- Light Reading: Hibernia Offers Cross-Atlantic 40G
For additional information, please visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com. The full text of the original press release is also posted below.
HIBERNIA ATLANTIC IS THE FIRST TRANSPORT PROVIDER TO OFFER NATIVE 40 GBPS WAVELENGTH CAPACITY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC FOR COMMERCIAL USE
SUMMIT, NJ & DUBLIN, IRELAND- August 13, 2009- Hibernia Atlantic, the only diverse transAtlantic submarine transport cable provider, today announces the company is now the first to offer native, 40 Gbps wavelength (WL) capacity across the Atlantic Ocean, without the need for external equipment. By deploying the latest 40G network technology, Hibernia has increased the potential capacity of the Atlantic system to 10.16Tb/s.
Hibernia Atlantic’s first-to-market offering is in response to its North American customers’ demand for greater bandwidth capacity, stemming from the precipitous rise in deployment of next-generation services, such as streaming video, IP multimedia and web conferencing. Additionally, financial exchanges and media houses need secure and high-performance capacity to ensure they are meeting their industries’ critical network requirements.
“Hibernia Atlantic is pleased to offer its clients this new, native 40 Gbps (WL) technology across the Atlantic,” states Bjarni Thorvardarson, CEO for Hibernia Atlantic. “This latest achievement displays Hibernia’s continued commitment to deploy the most advanced, innovative capacity upgrades for commercial use across the Hibernia cable system. This offering provides global investment banks, CDNs, broadcasters, international PTTs and ISPs in need of high-bandwidth a better network solution. With increased capacity, on a reliable network at wholesale prices, companies can continue to deploy streaming video and other next-generation applications and services over the Hibernia Atlantic network, with confidence and ease.”
“The ability to offer Hibernia Atlantic’s customers native 40 Gbps connectivity across the Atlantic is a great advance in network efficiency, providing customers additional capacity to communicate over Hibernia’s diverse and secure cable route,” continues Eric Gutshall, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Hibernia. “This new subsea advancement is another example of Hibernia Atlantic’s commitment to providing the highest levels of network performance, innovation and customer satisfaction to the market, in record-breaking time.”
For Hibernia’s global network map, please visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com.
About Hibernia Atlantic:
Hibernia Atlantic is the largest, privately held, diverse transAtlantic submarine cable transport provider. Hibernia is a US, wholly-owned subsidiary of Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC). It is a TransAtlantic submarine cable and terrestrial cable network that offers over (70) redundant network Points of Presence (PoPs) throughout Canada, US, UK and mainland Europe on over 24,000 kilometers of network. Hibernia provides secure and diverse dedicated Ethernet and optical-level service up to GigE, 10G and LanPhy wavelengths and traditional SONET/SDH services. In addition, Hibernia offers wholesale capacity prices, unparalleled support, flexibility and service. For more information on Hibernia Atlantic’s cutting-edge network or to view their corporate video, please visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com.
For Hibernia Atlantic business inquiries, please contact Melissa Butler at 908-988-1990 or melissa.butler@hiberniaatlantic.com.
To view Hibernia’s corporate overview video, please click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0xVMLEfFrk&eurl=
For Hibernia Atlantic media inquiries, please contact:
Jaymie Scotto & Associates
+1.866.695.3629
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