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Hibernia Networks was a privately held, US-owned, provider of global capacity telecommunication services. It operated global network routes on self-healing rings in North America, Europe and Asia including submarine communications cable systems in the North Atlantic Ocean which connect Canada, the United States, Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom and Europe. Hibernia managed cable landing stations in Dublin, Republic of Ireland; Coleraine, Northern Ireland; Southport, England; Halifax, Canada; Lynn, USA. Hibernia Networks was a subsidiary of Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC) and owned by both CVC and Constellation Ventures Partners. Hibernia's network provided service, from 2.5 Gbit/s to 100 Gbit/s^[1] wavelengths and Ethernet from 10 Mbit/s to 100 Gbit/s. It also provides traditional SONET/SDH services.

Its transatlantic cable system was originally built by Tyco Submarine Systems for 360networks (360atlantic) in 2000 for $962M and placed in receivership in 2001, purchased in 2003 and began carrying traffic in 2005. It is now owned and operated by GTT Communications, Inc..

Hibernia Networks acquired MediaXstream in 2009.^[2] The company also acquired the Media Connect assets from TeliaSonera International Carrier (TSIC) located in Europe and the US in August 2012 and combined with the other media assets rebranded as Hibernia Networks. This made Hibernia Networks one of the largest 100% QOS fiber based DTM Video Transport Network in the world.^[3] The company operated in European and North American markets and transported content across its optical switching and dynamic transport mode network.

Hibernia Networks provided financial customers and the trading community low-latency routes to financial exchanges and data centers. On September 30, 2010, Hibernia announced at the Toronto Stock Exchange Opening Bell, and as well in The Wall Street Journal, its plans for a new transatlantic cable, Project Express, to be built from the NY metro area to Slough west of London, with less than 60 ms of delay. This cable system will be the highest bit rate (8.8 terabits/second), lowest latency (59 ms) cable built across the Atlantic for traders.^[4]

In 2011, Hibernia announced its expansion into the Pacific Rim with network connectivity into Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong.^[5]

In 2013 Atrato IP Networks^[6] was acquired.

January 9th, 2017 Hibernia was acquired by GTT Communications, Inc.. ^[7]

The network is manned by dual network operations centers (NOCs) located in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Churu India and Pune India. There is a television/media operation center (TOC) in Baltimore, Maryland carrying media and broadcast traffic on both full-time and occasional use.

The network has cable landing stations in:

1. Herring Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada 44°33′41.2″N 63°33′40.1″W / 44.561444°N 63.561139°W / 44.561444; -63.561139
2. Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA 42°27′33.8″N 70°57′38.2″W / 42.459389°N 70.960611°W / 42.459389; -70.960611
3. Dublin, County Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Sutton (from Herring Cove)/Baldoyle (to Ainsdale Sands)53°24′40.1″N 6°12′58.4″W / 53.411139°N 6.216222°W / 53.411139; -6.216222
4. Southport (Ainsdale Sands), Merseyside, England 53°37′38.5″N 2°59′4.7″W / 53.627361°N 2.984639°W / 53.627361; -2.984639

An additional landing point was established in Coleraine, County Londonderry (under Project Kelvin), Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.^[9]

Current Network Locations include:

• "Network Map" (PDF). Retrieved September 9, 2009.^{[permanent dead link]}
• "History of Nova Scotia with special attention given to Communications and Transportation (cite for Herring Cove landing point)". Retrieved November 29, 2006.
• "$80,000,000 fibre-optic site opens in Herring Cove 360networks station has far-flung connections (cite for Hospital Point, Herring Cove landing point)". Retrieved November 29, 2006.

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• 360 Networks
• Columbia Ventures Corporation