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Tech WEEK
Sunday, April 26, 2009
New Ethernet service from Cable &Wireless

Cable & Wireless has announced that it is to begin offering a new high-speed Ethernet service for businesses and telecoms carriers in Ireland. The company will offer connectivity with interface options of 10Mbps or 100Mbps to its wireless IPVPN QoS product (Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network Quality of Service), which supports video, voice and data. Cable & Wireless Ireland business director Sean Mahon said demand for such a service was being driven by the rise in use of applications such as voice over IP, video streaming and real-time online backup.

Greenhouse appointments

The Greenhouse, a new startup business incubator based in Limerick, has appointed three advisors to its board. They include former Shannon development chief executive Kevin Thompstone; Pat Phelan, founder and chief executive of Cubic Telecom and Richard O’Donnell, co-founder of Software Architects International and Redeo.com.

The Greenhouse, which was launched earlier this year and has already secured office space in central Limerick, will be run by a consortium of investors and service providers and will offer to take equity stakes in new businesses in exchange for space at the centre and related services.

€200k contract for Strata3

Web development company Strata3 has won a €200,000 deal with Tourism Ireland, the cross-border tourism development authority. Under the terms of the contract, Strata3 will be responsible for web development, hosting and management of Tourism Ireland’s central and eastern European websites across seven countries, initially focusing on the Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Slovak markets.

BT’s Starbucks wi-fi deal

BT has won a new contract that will see it provide wi-fi internet access to 650 Starbucks coffee outlets in Ireland and Britain. The web services will be available to subscribers of BT’s Openzone wi-fi service and others roaming on the BT network. Starbucks will also use the network to support its own in-store operations systems. The first stores will have the service installed this week, and the roll-out will be completed by the end of the summer. The value of the deal was not disclosed.

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