INEX Cork

Barry Rhodes, CEO INEX

Clarion Hotel, Lapps Quay, Cork

7th April 2016 INEX

INEX founded in 1996 § 1996 - 4 members § 2003 – 8 members Now over 100 members 6 PoPs § 3 x /Telecity; 2 x Interxion; 1 x /C&W Daily peak traffic currently reaches 120 Gig § Compound growth of over 60% per annum Byte of data - 1 grain of rice I Megabyte - 8 bags 1 Gigabyte - 3 container lorries 1 Zettabyte - fills the Pacific Ocean

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“The Digital Universe will continue to double every two years” - IDC Geographical Location

An island separated from mainland Population 5 million

Geographical Location

An island separated from mainland Europe On a direct route from Access to USA to , Population 5 million , and European (FLAP) market of Access to European market of >500 million >500 million Holyhead Killala Amsterdam

Dublin Galway

London Brean

Cork

Paris

Lannion ? E&OE Not to scale INEX Cork IX

INEX is confident that Cork will become a new European ICT hub As Cork is becoming more attractive, Dublin is facing challenges § Becoming ‘saturated’, e.g. power limitations, road / transport congestion, property shortage, a capital city that is becoming more expensive § A single location of failure for US ‘hyperscales’ § Most Dublin cluster Internet traffic is currently routed through UK / London • Another single point of failure Content providers want to get as close as possible to the ‘eyeballs’ In our opinion this opens the door for Cork INEX Cork IX

INEX mission: … to meet and exceed all the Internet Exchange needs of its membership community, both now and in the future Cork has more potential for exchanging data than other regions Presence of an established, carrier neutral, data centre (CIX) Free port connections until at least January 2019 Guarantee that charges will then not exceed those of INEX Dublin Not expecting immediate traffic volume, but signs are good INEX Cork exchange switches were installed on Monday 5th April INEX Cork

Our sincere thanks to the 13 Founding Members: Airspeed Airwave BT

CIX East Cork BB eir

HEAnet Intellicom OGCIO

Nova Networks Rapid BB Strencom Viatel/Digiweb Others prospects INEX Cork - Summary

Cork’s ICT Pedigree Existing and planned international cable connectivity Geographically well positioned, providing routes avoiding London Enormous potential as another ICT cluster hub Great support from Local Government, Local Businesses and other organisations Vibrant educational, research and innovation programmes Lower costs IDA is active with major ongoing FDI activity in the region “INEX is proud to be playing this leading role in creating the right environment for Cork to greatly benefit from the global explosion of data.”

Barry Rhodes, INEX, CEO In conclusion, it is my great pleasure to confirm that INEX CORK is now open for business o High internal demand o High private international connectivity o Favourable tax rate o Business friendly environment o Geographically unique o leveraging the edge - west coast peripheral to UK neutral meeting grounds on periphery o co-operative not competitive across country o once in place it is like a gold mine it just grows o low population is advantage, lower costs. more digital innovation o long term payoff o perceptions and biases are as important as economical considerations o broaden awareness of importance of infrastructure to wider public (e.g. fishermen) INEX Cork - Summary

o Increasing international cable connectivity o Potential o Geographically well positioned, providing routes that avoid London o leveraging the edge - west coast peripheral to UK neutral meeting grounds on periphery o Support from Government, Local Government and Local Businesses o once in place it is like a gold mine it just grows o Low population is an advantage; lower costs, more digital innovation o long term payoff o perceptions and biases are as important as economical considerations o broaden awareness of importance of infrastructure to wider public (e.g. fishermen) International Cables - Ireland

Two new cables from Ireland to UK – Celtix Connect - 2012 – Eirgrid/Zayo – 2013 Last transatlantic cable to Ireland 2003 2 new transatlantic cables in 2015 – Hibernia Express Dublin – Aqua Comms Another transatlantic cable in 2019 Cork – Arctic Fibre Ireland to subsea cables – IFSC (to Lannion) – PiPiper (to ?) – Eirgrid electricity inter-connector (?)