Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 November 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

National Broadband Plan Roll-out: Discussion

Mr. Peter Hendrick:

I will start with the question about building over existing commercial networks. Looking at the capacity requirement over 25 years, we need to build in the scalability and the amount of cables that are required. In each cable, there could be 144 separate cables. We need to splice into that. We need to account for the 544,000 homes and businesses that need to be connected. We then need to account for growth, not just in terms of speed, but also new homes and businesses that will be added to the network over 25 years. We have built all that design into our infrastructure. While we will always seek to leverage the existing infrastructure that is available, it is difficult to build our capacity requirements into a network whose dimensions have been based on existing or historical demand. We will always use infrastructure that is available and that can meet our demand expectations.

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