Hibernia Atlantic
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| Public | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Successor | GTT Communications |
| Headquarters | McLean, Virginia, United States |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| Products | Telecommunications, submarine communications cable |
| Website | gtt.net |
| 360atlantic (Hibernia Atlantic) | |
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Owners: GTT Communications, Inc.. |
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| Landing points | |
| Design capacity | 10.16 Tbit/s |
| Technology | Fiber Optic DWDM |
Hibernia Networks was a privately held, US-owned, provider of global capacity telecommunication services. It operated global network routes on self-healing rings in North America, Europe and Asia including submarine communications cable systems in the North Atlantic Ocean which connect Canada, the United States, Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom and Europe. Hibernia managed cable landing stations in Dublin, Republic of Ireland; Coleraine, Northern Ireland; Southport, England; Halifax, Canada; Lynn, USA. Hibernia Networks was a subsidiary of Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC) and owned by both CVC and Constellation Ventures Partners. Hibernia's network provided service, from 2.5 Gbit/s to 100 Gbit/s wavelengths and Ethernet from 10 Mbit/s to 100 Gbit/s. It also provides traditional SONET/SDH services.
Its transatlantic cable system was originally built by Tyco Submarine Systems for 360networks (360atlantic) in 2000 for $962M and placed in receivership in 2001, purchased in 2003 and began carrying traffic in 2005. It is now owned and operated by GTT Communications, Inc..
Hibernia Networks acquired MediaXstream in 2009. The company also acquired the Media Connect assets from TeliaSonera International Carrier (TSIC) located in Europe and the US in August 2012 and combined with the other media assets rebranded as Hibernia Networks. This made Hibernia Networks one of the largest 100% QOS fiber based DTM Video Transport Network in the world. The company operated in European and North American markets and transported content across its optical switching and dynamic transport mode network.
Hibernia Networks provided financial customers and the trading community low-latency routes to financial exchanges and data centers. On September 30, 2010, Hibernia announced at the Opening Bell, and as well in The Wall Street Journal, its plans for a new transatlantic cable, Project Express, to be built from the NY metro area to Slough west of London, with less than 60 ms of delay. This cable system will be the highest bit rate (8.8 terabits/second), lowest latency (59 ms) cable built across the Atlantic for traders.
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