The problem now facing networks is how to evolve network architectures to cope with the massive increase in unpredictable traffic demand while sustaining profitability and controlling costs.  The network of the future needs to be smarter, more flexible and faster to deploy in addition to delivering services cost effectively. However current networking technologies all fail to respond to this transition as they are fundamentally blocked by the underlying infrastructure based on fixed static pipes and complex control and management systems. The next 10 years will require the network to transition from today’s centralized, static, and complex networks to networks that will be distributed, dynamic and simple. 

 
Intune Networks has designed, tested and deployed a way to evolve existing telecom architecture to cope with the massive increase in demand for information whilst sustaining profitability and controlling costs. The company’s core competency (fast tuning lasers to enable a burst mode optical transmission system) supports the level of network agility required to handle the increasingly unpredictable surges in demand for data. This technology is helping to reduce both costs and energy consumption and has the potential to deliver social and economic benefit throughout the IT industry and beyond.

 
Carriers are faced with a range of options and challenges as they move towards Converged Packet Optical solutions, such as P-OTS and router bypass via OTN or layer 2 technologies. Each of these solutions has unique limitations. Intune Network’s pioneering Optical Packet Switch and Transport (OPST) technology delivers a powerful alternative to the current packet optical offerings.

 
OPST is a new network invention with a single dynamic optical packet layer that enables precision allocation of processing and communication resources, so that they are used exclusively where they are absolutely necessary thus eliminating overprovisioning from the service providers network. OPST delivers networks that are easy to deploy and operate with a single control plane and single management plane thereby eliminating the pain from building and operating networks. The OPST network is inherently pre-engineered for all possible demands.

 
Intune Networks’ OPST technology will allow carriers to better share their existing networks and make better use of their existing infrastructure. Sharing existing infrastructure in this way enables the network owners to ring fence and resell under used-capacity, making the network more profitable while providing service level assurance to their customers. Intune’s products allow operators to view their networks as pools of liquid bandwidth.  Dividing up the operators’ resources in this way provides for many more revenue streams to come online quickly and in a manageable way. It allows companies to share the cost of these assets, thereby underscoring profitability and fuelling growth and, most importantly, enables more operators to immediately meet the changing needs of their customers.