Non traditional telecom companies with fibre networks

funnyname

Eircom and UPC have large fibre networks that are available to a lot residential properties in Ireland however there are additional companies with fibre networks.

These include; ESB Telecom, Bord Gáis, CIE, National Roads Authority and Waterways Ireland.

Do they provide services to residential properties or are their networks solely for their own use?

ESBT has over 1300km of a network, not sure about the rest but it would be great if the ordinary person could benefit from this.

yuloni

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daffy_duc

These companies generally sell capacity on their fibre infrastructure to the Telco's.
The Telco then looks after providing the last mile access, into the houses and businesses.

Ben D Bus

3000Kms of CIE fibre available according to this.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056515468

Maps included in the linked thread

Bohrio

I think it has already been said, Irish Rail has the largest fibre in Ireland if I remember correctly.

Most companies (including Eircom) rent fibre off them (either to increase capacity or because they dont have fibre on that particular area). This fibre is used to interconnect their services, such as Broadband DSLAMs (residential and business) as well as SME and Large businesses (using high capacity links such as STMx).

Most of this fibre end up on what is called an EAM. This fibre is used to connect different EAM or Sites. When a company like Eircom wants to use this fibre they will need, first to rent this fibre from whoever owns it (Irish Rail, Eircom, BT, etc) then bring their own equipment to those sites and finally provide the final link to the premises (on dsl this will be the last mile) .But the EAM will normally be as far as the fibre will go, from there is up to the provider to find a way to bring the signal to the premises. Only big busine3ss can afford s mre fibre into the premises as unless the fibre is already there, the access provider will need to privde that fibre, and that is very expensive.

For DSL is the same thing. Eircom is already using that fibre, then they use their own fibre to connect their DSLAMs to, for example, an Irish Rail EAM (when they dont have their own fibre available) and then they use copper to bring the signal to the customers premises. The problem is not the amount of fibre in the country is the fact that the fibre doesnt reach the end customer and for the moment, this will not change.

funnyname

I would love it a few more FWA companies (especially Galway)made use of this fibre network

looks like some already are

http://www.nwewn.com/prices.php

BlueBox Broadband - Next Generation Broadband Residential Prices (Coverage Area Limits Apply)

Residential Packages Speed (Down/Upload) Contention Ratio Monthly Price INC VAT
Next Gen Home 10 Up to 10Mbit/2Mbit 48/1 £19.99 / €24.99
Next Gen Home 50 Up to 50Mbit/10Mbit 48/1 £24.99 / €32.99

http://www.carnsorebroadband.com/?page_id=6

Residential Broadband

We only have one residential broadband package – we haven’t been asked for more packages. Our residential package is as follows:

15 Mbits download, 2 Megabits upload
No daily or monthly usage limits or restrictions
€ 30 per month including VAT