Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion

Mr. Peter Hendrick:

Exactly. It is well within the terms typically seen for any fibre network. It must be understood that the difference between the NBI network and many traditional networks is that we do not have a lot of active node points in the network. There are 227 deployment areas in which we have active equipment.

We hand back to the retail operators in 33 regional points of handover or two data centres in Dublin. Once we go into those broadband networks every point of exchange on their network also introduces some sort of latency. Even with all of that, let us call it optical to electrical transfer of connectivity, we are still talking about a sub-10 ms round trip.

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