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Emerald Networks Holdings has chosen
Killala Bay in County Mayo as the landing
site for its Emerald Express high-capacity
fiber optic cable system. The new-build
cable will connect North America to
Europe and Iceland, making Killala Bay
the ideal landing location on the Mayo
coastline, but with minimal environmental
impact.
Emerald Networks selected Killala Bay
after a thorough analysis of various factors
such as any potential impact on the
local fishing activity, minimal disturbance
to the local environment, security to the
cable systems and the landing facility,
and increased ease of interconnecting
with international terrestrial network for
connecting with Dublin to London to other
parts of the European continent.
Emerald Networks’ new cable system is
expected to provide 100G connectivity
through a unique route connecting Shirley
in New York to the west coast on Ireland,
with a branch connection to Grindavik in
Iceland and further planned connectivity
to southern Europe. The system is expected
to be fully operational by the end of 2014.
Emerald lands at Killala
Bay
EUROPE NEWS
At the end of 2013 Delfingen Industry
announced its acquisition of the wiring
protection manufacturing unit of Tianhai
Hengbang Hebi Rubber & Plastic
(Hengbang) of China.
Hengbang has a manufacturing plant in
Hebi, Henan province, with service plants
in the cities of Changchun, Chongquin,
Jilin and Harbin. Delfingen reports that the
company generates annual sales revenue
of around $2million.
Delfingen has been in Wuhan, Hubei
province, since 2010, and it is hoped that
this acquisition will enable Delfingen to
gain new markets with Sino-Chinese wiring
manufacturers and OEMs, and also to
complete its industrialand logisticspresence.
Delfingen wiring
acquisition