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MBRYONICS Ltd, a Galway-based company which specialises in developing advanced optics for the space industry, has just secured €4.1 million in funding through the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF). The company is planning a significant expansion and aims to create a ‘Silicon Valley’ for earth-orbit communications technology in the west.

Farice, (a company fully owned by the Icelandic Government, which currently owns, and operates two submarine cables linking Iceland to Northern Europe) announced this week that the IRIS Sub-Sea Telecoms Cable System connecting Galway to Iceland and onwards to Denmark and the Nordics is now in its final phase of implementation.

Galway has been designated as a landing location for international telecommunications cables with increased availability of terrestrial networks across the country enabling this. Farice, which is fully owned by the Icelandic Government and currently owns and operates two submarine cables that connect Iceland to Northern Europe, has been undertaking preparatory work for a new submarine fibre cable from Iceland to Europe via Galway since early 2019.