An ultra-fast super-capacity data cable has been brought ashore on the south coast linking Ireland to one of the world’s fastest transatlantic fibre-optic sub-sea cables.

Cork Internet eXchange said its advanced plans to link onto a high-speed transatlantic cable will make it the fastest data switching centre on the island this summer, as it eyes more sub-sea connections into Europe and eventually into Asia.

Ireland is set to get a link to the fastest ever super-capacity transatlantic fibre-optic data cable — a move that could help deliver hundreds of hi-tech jobs in the growing cloud computing and data sectors.