Intune Networks has announced plans to create 350 new high-skilled jobs in Dublin and Belfast over the next three years.
The company was named to lead the Irish government’s programme to build an ‘Exemplar Smart Network’, the first step in creating a next generation communications infrastructure in the Republic.
Intune estimated that the network will allow for the creation of 50 new high tech jobs in the next year and a further 300 additional jobs within the next three years as the network is rolled out.
The company already employs 100 people in Dublin and Belfast of which 90% are high tech research and development jobs.
Its Belfast office employs 34 people and last month announced plans to establish a research and development centre in the city that will create 77 new positions by 2010. The latest announcement will speed up its recruitment plans, a spokeswoman said.
Tim Fritzley, chief executive of Intune Networks said: “The Exemplar Smart Network will open significant opportunities for Ireland as indigenous companies use it as a platform for developing and testing new applications and international companies come to Ireland to base R&D activity here.”
Intune Networks has developed the world’s first programmable fibre optic platform which is critical to building an Exemplar Smart Network.
This new technology allows high quality, on-demand and interactive internet services. It uses up to 75% less energy than current networks which are dominated by electronics.
Read More