Enet Announces 5-Year Deal With National Broadband Ireland to Provide Fibre Backhaul

Enet, Ireland’s largest open access telecoms network provider, has announced a significant five-year deal with National Broadband Ireland (NBI), to provide backhaul to 32 regional and rural Point of Presence (PoPs) around the country.

The connectivity, multiple 10GB links, is seen as an enabler for NBI’s nationwide delivery of a new future-proofed, high-speed Fibre-to-the-Home network under the National Broadband Plan on behalf of the Government.

NBI currently benefits from Enet’s unique backhaul infrastructure’s resilience, meaning there will be no disruption to the current connectivity to customers in rural areas. Enet’s robust bandwidth capacity will grow and improve throughout the five-year deal, enhancing broadband services to nearly one-quarter (23%) of Ireland’s population.

Peter McCarthy, CEO of Enet, says: “Enet are confident that we are best positioned to continue to provide a first-class national backhaul network to NBI. This is a significant opportunity to continue our successful working relationship with NBI, maintaining our current infrastructure to benefit NBI’s national customer base, as well as our expanding network, to meet any of NBI’s future requirements.”

Peter Hendrick, CEO of National Broadband Ireland, says: “Our rollout is currently delivering high-speed fibre access to 10,000 premises every month, and as internet traffic continues to grow, and take-up on the NBI network goes from strength to strength, this deal enables NBI for the future, and gives us control over critical elements of our network architecture.”