Minister Opens -Pound- 2 Million Esat Telecom Network Management Center.DUBLIN, Ireland,--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 1998--Esat Telecom Group plc (`the Group') (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ESATY) today announced that the Minister for Public Enterprise, Mary O'Rourke Mary O'Rourke (Irish: Máire Uí Ruairc) (born May 31, 1937), is a senior Irish politician. She was widowed in January 2001 following the death of her husband, Enda. She has two sons. TD, officially opened Esat Telecom's new IR(pound)2 million Network Management Center at Dundrum Business Park in Dublin today. The state-of-the-art facility, which monitors call traffic on Esat Telecom's local, national and international fiber optic network on a 24 hour basis, comprises a series of video walls which allow operators to continually monitor and immediately identify any network faults. A high powered switch, the DMS (1) (Document Management System) See document management. (2) (Defense Messaging System) An X.500-compliant messaging system developed by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. 100, installed at the center and capable of carrying a quarter of a million calls per hour, will become operational at the end of August. The capacity of this switch will be increased by 50% by December 1998 to cater for increased service demand. Esat Telecom already has a DMS 100 switch at its Fenian Street site. Esat Telecom's four Dublin offices - The Malt House a house in which malt is made. See also: Malt , Adelaide Road, Fenian Street and Dundrum, which are all linked via its fiber optic network, are also monitored at the center using a 100 Mbit LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. interconnect. Speaking at the opening of the center, Esat Telecom Chairman, Mr. Denis O'Brien Denis O'Brien, (born April 19 1958 in County Cork), is an Irish entrepreneur. An Arts graduate of University College Dublin, O'Brien received an MBA in corporate finance from Boston College in 1982, he holds an honorary doctorate from University College Dublin. said that the facility would ensure that services carried through Esat Telecom's fiber optic network would be of the highest quality and reliability. "We have invested in the best quality technology available world-wide, as part of our strategy to create a state-of-the-art telecoms service. This new facility gives us that leading edge and will be a major benefit for our customers," added Mr. O'Brien. Esat Telecom provides integrated telecommunications services to more than 3,800 corporate customers and employs 280 people at offices in Dublin, Cork, Limerick Limerick, city, Republic of Ireland Limerick, city (1991 pop. 56,083), seat of Co. Limerick, SW Republic of Ireland, at the head of the Shannon estuary. The city has a port with two docks. , Waterford and Galway. Esat Telecom Group plc has also established a residential division in advance of Ireland's telecommunications market being fully deregulated on December 1, 1998. This division will complete the Esat portfolio of telecoms divisions comprising business telecommunications company See telecom company. , Esat Telecom; corporate Internet Services Provider, Esat Net; networking systems integration company, BridgeCom Group and 45% of GSM mobile phone operator, Esat Digifone.
CONTACT: IRELAND
Financial Corporate Communications Ltd.
Brian Harmon
+ 353 1 661 6010
or
UNITED STATES
Dewe Rogerson Inc
Cindy Lyman/Juanita Gutierrez
+ 212 688 6840
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion