Emerald Networks announces fibre infrastructure agreement with Geo Networks

DUBLIN, IRELAND & LONDON, ENGLAND: Emerald Networks Ltd, a new-build submarine cable system provider connecting North America to Europe and Iceland with extraordinary new capacity, and Geo Networks Ltd, the UK's leading provider of dedicated fibre networks, announced a long-term agreement for Geo to provide physically diverse optical fibre routes from Dublin to London across Geo's new East-West subsea system and onwards over Geo's UK mainland network, collectively the newest and most advanced high performance fibre network between Dublin and London.

This agreement will enable Emerald Networks to extend its new low latency trans-Atlantic submarine cable system, "Emerald Express," from the major North American markets through to the most important data centres in the UK and onwards to mainland Europe.

Geo's new fibre infrastructure will enable Emerald Networks to utilise the most innovative optical technologies and provide the most advanced undersea telecommunications system constructed to date.

The Emerald Express system will take advantage of Geo's market-leading position in UK data centre connectivity to facilitate connectivity to all the UK's major exchanges, internet hubs and colocation Data Centres as well as providing the critical interconnect points for accessing markets in mainland Europe.