Dungarvan broadband network launched

A new €1.5m state-of-the-art broadband fibre optic network in Dungarvan has been launched by Minister for Communications, Dermot Ahern.

The Dungarvan Network is the first of the six Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN), being constructed under the South-East Regional Authority’s ‘SERPANT’ – South-East Regional Broadband Project, to be completed.

“This Broadband Project is a very important development for Dungarvan and, indeed, for the South-East Region in that it has seen the installation of a key, state-of-the-art telecommunications infrastructure in the principal urban centres in each county in our region”, Cllr James Tobin, Cathaoirleach of the Regional Authority stated at the launch of the Network.

The ‘SERPANT’ South-East Broadband Project is the largest and most complex single project in the National Broadband Programme that is part-funded under the National Development Plan, 2000 - 2006.

The project will cost an estimated €14m and involves construction of almost 100kms of underground fibre-optic cabling in six cities and towns in the region: Waterford, Kilkenny, Clonmel, Carlow, Wexford and Dungarvan.