INEX Cork Barry Rhodes, CEO INEX - Clarion Hotel, Lapps Quay, Cork

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 Dublin PoPs
§   3 x Equinix/Telecity; 2 x Interxion; 1 x Vodafone/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

                                                           Zettabytes

                                    2012
                                    2114
                                    2016
                                    2018
                                    2020
                                           0   10     20          30        40          50   60

                                                    2012   2014   2016   2018    2020

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

Geographical Location

An island separated
from mainland
Europe
                      Population
                      5 million

Geographical Location

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

Holyhead
Killala                                                                 Amsterdam

                      Dublin
             Galway

                                                       London
                                     Brean

      Cork

                                                                Paris

                                             Lannion
                           ?                                             E&OE

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 Ireland

 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 France subsea cables
– IFSC (to Lannion)
– PiPiper (to ?)
– Eirgrid electricity inter-connector (?)