Intune Networks meets HRH Queen Elizabeth at Hillsborough Castle

Belfast, October 2010 – Intune Networks were among a small group of business leaders who were invited to meet HRH Queen Elizabeth at Hillsborough Castle for a reception celebrating business excellence. The dinner reception was held during the Queen’s official October visit to Northern Ireland and was hosted by Invest Northern Ireland. Intune Networks were honoured by being included in a small group that shared a table with the Queen during the event.

Jayne Brady, Head of Intune Networks Belfast said, ‘We are very proud to have been selected to meet the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at such a prestigious event and to have been afforded an opportunity to share our business experiences with her. It was an excellent opportunity to highlight the importance of economic growth, development opportunities and facilitating the right business structures which will help companies thrive in Northern Ireland.

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Mobile data traffic forecast to grow tenfold in five years... - Silicon Republic

In defining his vision of the future of the network at the Broadband World Forum in Paris today, the co-founder of Irish technology firm Intune Networks said mobile packet traffic is set to grow by a factor of 10 in less than five years.

The company’s co-founder, John Dunne, outlined a 10-year transition from today’s centralised, static and complex networks to networks that will be distributed, dynamic and simple.

Mobile packet traffic, he said, is forecasted to grow by a factor of 10 in less than five years, with video consuming more than 50pc of projected new bandwidth growth.

Normal growth challenges have been exacerbated by the recent proliferation of high-powered mobile devices, such as smartphones and netbooks, which produce increasingly unpredictable data traffic patterns.

This mobile growth is in addition to the doubling of packet-based traffic every 18 months based on current and ever-increasing new web and internet services.

The problem facing networks is how to evolve network architectures to cope with the massive increase in unpredictable traffic demand while sustaining profitability and controlling costs. Intune Networks has achieved this through its breakthrough technology named Optical Packet Switch and Transport (OPST) and the Intune Network’s iVX8000 platform will deliver this solution.

Global economic transition based on web services
Dunne said: “We are at the beginning of a global economic transition based on web services. The current network and network technologies will all fail to be able to meet the future economic drivers.

“Central to solving this problem will be a unified network for all services that can dynamically adapt to demand, whilst operating at the lowest cost. Intune Network’s Verisma, the world’s first web-enabled tunable network solution, empowers service providers to fundamentally change the economics that challenge business survival, and provide a foundation for future prosperity.

“Intune Networks will deliver solutions based on Optical Packet Switch and Transport technology that enable users to realise the potential of their assets through virtualising the network. Customers will achieve new levels of network efficiency, operational simplicity and service delivery agility.

“Solutions from Intune Networks will unlock the possibilities in networks, delivering a step-change in the level of real-time network customisation, architectural simplicity and reduced operational costs that will enable a sea change in the value of their networks and services,” he said.

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Intune CTO to Present at BBWF 2010...

Intune Networks's CTO, John Dunne will discuss how Intune's patented Optical Packet Switch and Transport (OPST) platform can virtualise the network.

Intune’s OPST platform is uniquely capable of delivering fluid network connectivity and capacity to meet nomadic services in a deterministic manner, whilst delivering a virtualised fully meshed network which supports multiple network services on a single infrastructure. Additionally, service delivery is under user control and is scalable and usage based by design with the web enabling the scalability of the architecture. Intune’s solution significantly lowers total cost of ownership (TCO), while allowing for the rapid deployment of revenue generating Web services that require high quality, on-demand network access.

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Packet optical transport: Hollowing the network core... - Gazettabyte

Roy Rubenstein, editor of Gazettabyte, interviews Intune Network's CEO, Tim Fritzley and CTO John Dunne on how Intune's Optical Packet Switch and Transport Technology can hollow out the core.

Intune Networks has developed an optical packet switching and transport (OPST) system that effectively turns fibre into a distributed switching fabric.

The platform enables a fully-meshed metropolitan networkIntune Networks' CEO, Tim Fritzley (right) and John Dunne, co-founder and CTO with software support for web-based services, claims the Irish start-up.

“What we have designed allows for the sharing of the same fibre switching assets across multiple services in the metro,” says Tim Fritzley, Intune’s CEO.

The company is in talks with several operators about its OPST system, which is being used for a nationwide network in Ireland. The system is also part of an EC seventh framework project that includes Spanish operator Telefónica...

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Intune Top EC Success Story...

Intune Networks attended the European Commission’s ICT 2010 conference in Brussels this September. Intune had a stand at the conference and presented the Exemplar Network in the Future Internet – a transformational Technology workshop. The conference was attended by over fifty-five thousand of Europe’s top ICT experts from industry and academia.



Fergal Ward (Exemplar Program Manager at Intune Networks), speaking to European commissioners, said “Intune are delighted to be nominated as one the EC’s top success stories. The ICT strand is a very competitive program with 1000’s of pioneering projects and for Intune to be nominated as one of the EC’s key successes is tremendous for Intune and a testament to the teams in Dublin and Belfast. Intune have worked in many EC projects since its inception in 1999 and have enjoyed building core Verisma technologies with European partners and lead customers. Our most recent project is called MAINS which studies the substantial benefits of optical burst switching architectures in next-generation networks. Intune have had many very positive experiences working in the EC’s framework program and look forward to participating in many more projects in years to come.”

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