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Comms-Online,
Ireland's first independent communications and consulting brokerage
house in Dublin, today announces that it was retained by the
Guinness
Enterprise Centre to provide evaluation on the installation of
broadband connectivity for its 65 client companies in the city
centre incubator.
Following an independent evaluation process, Eircom was selected
as the Centre's telecommunications partner.
Originally, the Centre was equipped with ISDN lines but as traffic
increased across the client companies, this has proved to be an
expensive option for some of the larger clients. "There is a direct
correlation between rising traffic and falling economies," says
John O'Grady, operations director of Comms Online. "The original
solution had proved an excellent entry level for the Centre but
the rising traffic meant it was time for the Centre to move to leased
lines."
The Centre opted for Eircom's 2Mb leased line option. The solution
is always on - 24 hours a day and 7 days a week - which suits the
many start-ups operating in the Centre, as there is now a fixed
cost per month for their connectivity requirements. In excess of
€30,000 was also spent on telecommunications equipment allowing
companies to access the service without having to purchase their
own routers.
"Comms Online not only offered independent advise in this evaluation
process, but is also a client of the incubator centre," explains
John McInerney, General Manager of the Guinness Enterprise Centre.
"The merit behind their company, now one year old, was their ticket
to obtaining a location in the Centre. That same merit proved very
helpful for us in our evaluation process in choosing a communications
partner.
"We have a wide range of companies located in the Centre, but there
is one common trait - use of telecommunications," says McInerney.
"With this solution, we can offer discounted access, eliminate expensive
connection charges, reduced capital expenditure and lower ongoing
costs."
Already, with the leased lines only going live last week, 0.9M/bits
of the total 2.0Mb has been taken up and McInerney believes it will
be October before this has to upgraded again, possibly to 4Mb. "The
next time round we may even consider installing a mixture of wireless
and fixed line solutions to provide fail safe solutions for our
companies".
Comms Online offers corporates and SME's the ability to compare
telecommunication prices and service levels available in Ireland.
The company also offers expert consultancy on focused aspects of
telecommunications, up to and including advice on bandwidth, hosting,
and managed services.
Comms Online has two main areas of business. The first is under
construction and involves developing an online service into a business
tool to assist customers make informed decisions, as well as the
ability to broker the best telecommunications deal possible for
their customers. The offline consulting service is tailored to meet
the Comms-Online customers requirements ranging from preliminary
voice traffic analysis to high level consulting on the best outsourced
hosting products in the Irish market while continuously managing
the service levels from the providers for their clients. .
About the Guinness Enterprise Centre
Since it opened for business in June 2001, the Guinness Enterprise
Centre now covers more than 6000 square feet and houses 65 companies,
which employ almost 300 full time people. The Centre is seeking
a further ten hi-tech companies to fill the remaining places. It
is unique in that the Centre provides hi-tech start-up facilities
for high growth companies right in the heart of Dublin city. It
is also ideally located within the digital development investment
planned by Dublin Corporation and is a member of the UK and Europe
Business Incubator Centres, offering networking and expansion opportunities
across Europe.
The Guinness Enterprise Centre was founded by Guinness Ireland and
the Dublin Business Innovation Centre (BIC) and is supported by
Dublin Corporation, Dublin City Enterprise Board and the Guinness
Workers Employment Fund (GWEF). It is managed by an independent
company, the Dublin Enterprise & Technology Centre Limited, with
representation from all six organisations as well as delegates from
the local community. Dublin BIC is the manager of the centre, which
in turn is represented by John McInerney, General Manager.
About Comms
Online
Comms Online
is Ireland's first independent communications, consulting and brokerage
house in Dublin. Since its inception, Comms Online has built up
an impressive customer base, and list of partners. Current partners
include eircom, Esat, WorldCom, Cable & Wireless, Nevada Tele.Com,
Ventelo, Colt Telecom, Genuity, and Worldport.
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