Tim Fritzley joins Intune as CEO

Intune, the global leader in delivering turn-key solutions requiring fast optical switching, is announcing the appointment of Tim Fritzley as the Chief Executive Officer of the company. Tim has been at the forefront of many new and innovative networking and service developments over his career while working at GTE, Tellabs, and most recently as the VP of Global Sales and Solutions at Microsoft TV. Tim successfully created and launched the IPTVE program, ecosystem, and partners to carriers around the world. Tim’s experience in network operations, network equipment development, and IPTV service platform creation and deployment gives him a broad and detailed perspective on the problems and issues the carriers are still facing in deploying and operating scaled IP networks for the delivery of converged voice, video and data services.

The Intune team has a proven 10 year track record of innovation in developing and delivering complete solutions requiring fast optical switching of a single laser and is a market leader in providing key technology and products for a variety of applications to global markets.

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UCC - Tyndall National Institute

The Photonic Systems Group is part of the Tyndall National Institute, and is affiliated with the Department of Physics at University College Cork. The group was created in 2003 with Science Foundation Ireland support to investigate advanced photonic systems in collaboration with other research groups and industry. The core team, lead by Professor David Cotter, Dr Andrew Ellis, Dr Bob Manning and Professor Paul Townsend, was previously based in industry (at the former Corning Research Centre and British Telecom Research Labs in the UK), with many years of experience in photonic systems R&D.

"Intune Networks currently has 90 researchers developing products for telecommunications. Over 50% of these researchers have masters or PhD qualifications, and we are constantly seeking highly trained and skilled people to join the R&D team. The development of Tyndall National Institute over the past 5 years has resulted in the availability of these people to companies like Intune, and we have hired 5 PhD graduates directly out of their programmes at Tyndall.

These graduates have a deep understanding and knowledge of optical components and optical networks, and have already contributed to the design and development of our new telecoms system called Optical Packet Switch and Transport (OPTS). Some of their work has resulted in new Intellectual Property adding great value to the company in the form of patents and knowhow. We are excited about the possibility of having such high quality graduates regularly available over the coming few years as we intend to grow our team by at least a further 50% in the near future." John Dunne (Co-Founder, Intune Networks).

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