Esat Telecom (Dublin, Ireland), part of Esat Telecom Group plc., will buy atm multiservice

Esat Telecom (Dublin, Ireland), part of Esat Telecom Group plc., will buy atm multiservice broadband switches from Cisco Systems Inc. (San Jose, CA) for its national backbone fiber-optic network in Ireland. Esat plans to invest heavily in developing its local, national, and international fiber network to provide greater bandwidth across wide area networks and higher transfer speeds for voice, data, Internet, and video applications. The new atm switches should be fully installed and operational by September 1998.