Galway is to get a new broadband network in the coming months, with a new wireless metro-ethernet network being developed by a Clare-based company.

AI Bridges, which designs and supports wireless broadband projects throughout Ireland, anticipates that work on its metro ethernet network from Cork to Donegal will be completed by mid-2008.

The company expects that regional service providers will use the network to provide an 'interconnect' service to multi-site companies and organisations across the West of Ireland.

According to Mr Kevin Hayes, Managing Director, AI Bridges, "The first part of the wireless Metro-Ethernet network from Cork Airport, through Limerick and Clare, has been live for the last two months. We anticipate that it will be extended to counties Galway, Mayo and Sligo early next year and to Donegal during the second quarter of 2008.

"This service essentially offers broadband service providers and organisations in rural parts of Ireland the opportunity to avail of their very own private broadband network, irrespective of geographic location and without incurring excessive infrastructural costs. The future rollout of broadband in Ireland lies with such next generation networks," he stated.

Mr Hayes said that AI Bridges' focus is not on the residential end-user market but on supplying a network with its own product solutions.

He explained, "Say, for example, a customer has its operations in Limerick and it wants to connect to another of its offices in Galway where there is not a broadband reach, they can obtain high capacity bandwidth connections by availing of this wireless network. Because the network is IP-based then the customer can avail of VoIP, video, data, security services over the same connection. There is no need to have multiple connections. Essentially users of the network benefit from their very own private broadband network."

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