Digiweb

Digiweb is a telecommunications company in Ireland, supplying business and consumer broadband and web hosting.

Digiweb Group
TypePrivate Limited Company
IndustryTelecommunications
Founded1997
HeadquartersDundalk, Ireland
Key people
Colm Piercy, CEO
ProductsFixed wireless and mobile broadband, web hosting and data centre services, business solutions, DSL, satellite
Number of employees
over 140
Websitewww.digiweb.ie

Digiweb is 100% Irish-owned and run, and is headquartered in Dundalk, County Louth, with its technical, installation and sales offices in Dublin. In May 2013, it acquired the British telecommunications company Viatel.[1]

Broadband services

Home broadband

Digiweb offer a variety of broadband services in Ireland: Metro Wireless Broadband (broadband and phone), mobile broadband (as of 2007), DSL and VDSL broadband (over standard phone lines), and satellite broadband.

The main wireless broadband service offers various broadband packages from 5 Mb/s down/1 Mb up (economy service) to 30 Mb down/1 Mb up (premium service). Transceiver locations are available in all major cities – Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford, Kilkenny – as well as a dozen or so towns around Ireland including Drogheda, Dundalk and Letterkenny. The service requires line-of-sight to the transceiver location and is offered up to 10 km from the point-of-service; this limit was set under the original Comreg licence conditions. Metro uses DOCSIS 2.0 over microwave frequencies. Digiweb are also testing a DOCSIS 3.0 platform supporting speeds in excess of 100 Mb/s.[2]

A smaller-scale wireless broadband service (using Airspan) is offered in smaller towns around the country.

As Digiweb offer a phone service without the Eircom copper pair, they are one of the few competitors along to Eircom's fixed line voice service.

Mobile broadband and phone

In April 2007, Digiweb announced that they are set to become Ireland's fifth mobile phone provider. ComReg, the telecoms regulator, allocated the 088 prefix to the new network – the same prefix used by Eircell's old analogue TACS system. The service would have been Ireland's first 4G network and should have taken 18 months to be rolled out.[3][4]

Business broadband

In 2007, they launched a revised business broadband portfolio with speeds of 100 Mbit/s[5] as well as higher-end solutions with extra capacity and symmetrical speeds.[6] In mid-2008, they announced the launch of a 1 Gb business package.[7]

Web hosting services

Digiweb also provide web hosting and domain services in their purpose-built data centre based in Blanchardstown, Dublin. Services include shared, virtual, cloud, CoLo and dedicated hosting options.

Other countries

Satellite broadband and ISP services such as hosting and domain registration are offered by Digiweb in Ireland, France, Italy and the United Kingdom.

Awards

Digiweb were the 2007 Irish Telecommunications and ICT Company of the Year[8] and were the second-fastest-growing technology sector business in Ireland in 2006.[9]

Footnotes
  1. "Digiweb Group acquires Viatel and VTLWaveNet". Capacity Magazine. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  2. Super User. "Home - Digiweb Home". digiweb.ie. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  3. Press Release: Digiweb Mobile Takes 088 Archived 27 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  4. RTÉ News article: Ireland gets new mobile phone provider
  5. New Business Packages: Speed Increase to 100Mb
  6. Symmetrical High Capacity Broadband: Dedicated Broadband Archived 2 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  7. 1Gb business package:High Speed Broadband Archived 21 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ICT Awards: Company of the Year Archived 24 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  9. Deloitte Tech Fast 50: 2nd Place Award Archived 25 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
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