Hibernia Atlantic's CEO Receives a Golden Bridges Award for Promoting Partnerships between North America and Ireland.SUMMIT, N.J. & DUBLIN -- Hibernia Atlantic For other uses of "Hibernia", see Hibernia (disambiguation). Hibernia Atlantic is a Transatlantic submarine communications cable system in the North Atlantic Ocean which connects Canada, the United States, Ireland and England. , the only diverse transAtlantic submarine transport cable provider, today announces that its company's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Bjarni K. Thorvardarson, has been awarded a Golden Bridges Award for promoting partnerships between North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Ireland through its new, fiber optic cable Noun 1. fiber optic cable - a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light fibre optic cable transmission line, cable, line - a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power build development, entitled "Project Kelvin". Hibernia Atlantic is the only extensive submarine and terrestrial cable deployment that will directly connect the Island of Ireland to North America. The award was presented to Mr. Thorvardarson by Valerie Watts, CEO of the Derry City Council Derry City Council (Irish: Comhairle Cathrach Dhoire) is a district council in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. The headquarters of the council is in the city of Derry on Lough Foyle. during the Irish Echo 'Gateways to Tomorrow' Conference in Boston. "It is an honor to be recognized with a Golden Bridges Award," states Bjarni Thorvardarson. "And it is privilege to provide local and global businesses access to our secure and ultra low latency Low latency allows human-unnoticeable delays between an input being processed and the corresponding output providing real time characteristics. This can be especially important for internet connections utilizing services such as online gaming and VOIP - VOIP is not as important as capacity to further drive economic development, cooperation and innovative technology. This award is a testament to the great people of Hibernia working around the clock and I'm proud to accept it on their behalf." This historic initiative will add additional and much needed low latency capacity to the Island of Ireland, to further support both local and global companies. Local companies are attracted to the high capacity, extremely secure and reliable network. Businesses can now increase their communications and next-generation Internet service offerings as well as increase their access to a larger marketplace of available service providers. The new network is also attractive to global companies, such as leading financial houses, exchange markets, service providers and media companies, who require fast, low latency bandwidth that avoids traditionally congested con·gest·ed adj. Affected with or characterized by congestion. congested ENT adjective Referring to a boggy blood-filled tissue. See Nasal congestion. routes, such as around the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and London waterways. Hibernia Atlantic recently brought its industry leading fiber optic submarine cable ashore at Portrush, Northern Ireland. This cable will connect to Hibernia Atlantic's terrestrial fiber optic ring currently being deployed to 13 towns and cities, including Armagh, Ballymena, Belfast, Castleblayney, Coleraine, Drogheda, Dundalk, Letterkenny, Londonderry, Monaghan, Omagh, Portadown and Strabane. By the end of this year, the cable system will connect to Hibernia Atlantic's existing transatlantic cable, thereby directly connecting Northern Ireland and the Island of Ireland to both North America and Europe. For a map of the cable build or more on Hibernia Atlantic, please click here or visit http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/images/NIrelandMaps5-09_000.jpg. About Hibernia Atlantic: Hibernia Atlantic is the largest, privately held, diverse transAtlantic submarine cable transport provider. Hibernia is a US, wholly-owned subsidiary of Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC See CSC. ). It is a TransAtlantic submarine cable and terrestrial cable network that offers over (75) redundant network Points of Presence (PoPs) throughout Canada, US, UK and mainland Europe on over 24,000 kilometers of network. To view Hibernia's corporate overview video, please click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0xVMLEfFrk&eurl= Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=6075238&lang=en |
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