Viatel And Virtual1 Announce Partnership For Solutions To The Irish Market

Viatel and Virtual1 today announce a partnership between the two companies that enables Virtual1 to access Viatel connectivity solutions across Ireland.

This new collaboration builds on a long established relationship between the two companies and offers an exciting proposition to Virtual1 and its partners.

Partners can take advantage of high bandwidth connectivity solutions across Ireland including wavelengths and Ethernet up to 10G. The Viatel infrastructure provides a deep network in Ireland with EFM, LLU, fibre and radio access types, enabling the company to connect across Ireland cost effectively, even into remote areas.

The Viatel network spans over 8,500km which connects 35 European cities, over 120 data centres, and Europe’s leading Internet Exchanges. The Viatel network is uniquely positioned in the market with the majority of the network infrastructure being wholly owned, this ensures Viatel a great deal of control over lead-times and costs compared to other players in the market.

Colm Piercy, CEO, Viatel said: “We are pleased to welcome Virtual1 as a wholesale Partner and this relationship will help enable us to bring key business hubs closer together. We look forward to a successful future with Virtual1.”

Virtual1 Managing Director, Tom O’Hagan said: “This partnership with Viatel is critical to enabling us to develop and expand our business in one of our target regions. It will enhance the service that we can provide to our existing partners, and open up opportunities to develop new partnerships to sell across Ireland. Our partners expect us to continue to develop our services and this arrangement with Viatel shows that we mean to meet those expectations”.