BoR (11) 06b BEREC report NGA Country Cases - IRG

Ireland
1 Market developments
1.1 Incumbent
1.1.1 Actual roll-out
BoR (11) 06b
� Illustrate the current status of NGA roll-out in your country. Consider the following aspects
- name of the operator and applied technology (e.g. FTTH GPON, FTTH P2P, FTTB,
VDSL, Cable);
Eircom
- current coverage of the network and number of NGA lines (passed/connected).
Please provide figures as of June 30 2010;
Eircom have recently launched both Wholesale and Retail NGN fibre-based Ethernet
Leased Line products. Its coverage is essentially limited to the current coverage of the
legacy fibre-based leased line services i.e. less than 1% of its 1.6 million lines. Its access
fibre coverage is essentially limited to business areas and the “premises passed” are
otherwise those passed by its core network fibre. The wholesale service is interconnect
based with an interconnect of 1Gb/s, with a 10Gb/s offer to be released by year end.
- available retail services (e.g. product name, type of service (e.g. triple play),
bandwidth, price level, price structure).
The wholesale pricing matrix is complicated, and prices vary according to a number of
contributory elements based on geographical region, anticipated customer concentration
or density of customers at the connecting node, bandwidth of the circuit, and mix of QOS
applied to the particular circuit. The geographic element is based on the region which is
categorised as Urban, Provincial or Rural. Every NGN node or exchange in each region is
then categorised as either high, high-to-medium or medium density. The circuit
bandwidths range from 10Mb/s to 1Gb/s and there are 2 versions of QoS; Circuit based
QoS offers a maximum of up to 5 options whilst traffic based has up to 85 options, the
number of options available for both is also dependent on the circuit bandwidth. The most
recent price list is available here: http://www.eircomwholesale.ie/Reference-Offers/LLRO/.
There is no publicly available retail pricing.
Eircom have launched a wholesale capacity based Bitstream product which will allow
OAO‟s to offer differentiated retail broadband products on Eircom ADSL 2+. Though this
is not a true NGN offering, Eircom have named it “NGN Bitstream” as the ADSL 2+ nodes
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