Intune Shows Where Networks Are Heading

Intune Networks is using new technology to change what networks are able to do. Started in 1999 by John Dunne and Tom Farrell, as they researched laser technology, Intune Networks developed technology in optical networking and solutions. They are coming to market as telecom switch products. The solution is known as Optical Packet Switch and Transport (OPST).

 
Intune is focused on the telecoms equipment market – where quality of experience and high bandwidth led to new opportunities. Intune has used OPST for a carrier-grade networking system, the Verisma iVX8000, available for deployment in 2010. Early versions are being used by several large European operators, the company said.

 
“We’ve gotten a lot of good receptivity from some Tier 1 carriers,” Ellis Reid, Intune’s director of product marketing, told TMC’s Rich Tehrani, during an interview in San Jose, Calif., about the company’s new products. “We’re the future of where networks are going to go.”

“By going to an all-optical fabric, converging layers zero, one and two into a single product, this is really the way the networks need to go and we think that Intune Networks is uniquely positioned to do that,” Reid adds. The network now has to provide what Reid described as an “everywhere to everywhere connectivity.” And it needs to be “flexible.”

Intune’s solution saves space, power and simplifies the network, he said.