[article] Intune Networks - the future of BB?

mike65

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Intune Networks, described by hi-tech investment expert Barry Maloney as one of the hottest opportunities in the world, is getting ready to unveil its new laser network/

/They began selling manufacturing equipment, but were determined to do something new -- and so they also kept their heads down at R&D. In 2003, they hit potential gold, inventing laser technology that has the potential to transform the way we use the web.

The invention attracted some big names in Silicon Valley, and now the former Santa Barbara denizen and Microsoft TV executive Tim Fritzley has taken over the CEO job, with Dunne moving to chief marketing officer.

Fritzley says, that anyone will be able to have as much bandwidth as they like on demand -- where and when they need it.

This new network will simply allocate a 100 per cent guaranteed amount of space to wherever you want it. Right now, watching high-definition video of a live sports event is impossible through the internet, explains Dunne. Intune will unblock this using optical technology.

This technology will deliver voice, music, video -- you name it -- on demand. It will change the way we interact and will mean the equivalent of HDTV instantly, wherever you are -- whether at home, on a bus or on the beach. The best bit is that you will pay for only what you use.

"We're talking zeta bytes," says Dunne. That's millions and millions of zeros to you and me.

The company will be selling this technology to all the big internet providers across the world. Everything is still top secret, but what they can say is that the technology has been validated by several large telecom companies.

The other main benefit from the major telecoms' point of view, claims Dunne, is that it drastically reduces their energy consumption by as much as 75 per cent while space requirements will fall by up to 50 per cent.

Mike

Moriarty

Was it really so much to ask for sharks with frikin lasers on their heads?


More seriously, it sounds like a load of vaporware surrounding carrier-class fibre optic gear.

lmimmfn

exactly, sounds like fibre with a load of publicity hype

watty

Upgrades on fibre happen all the time... 100Mbps -> 1Gbps ->10Gbps
(622Mbps was "fast" for some fibres in 2001, other people had 20Gbps then!).

Current state of the art is about 1000Gbps or more per fibre Commercial deployments are available right now to about 100Gbps (= 100,000Mbps, or 1Million users of 3Mbps DSL @ 30:1 contention!) on one fibre in a cable.

This is why smart companies rent / lease "dark fibre" (i.e. add your own gear at each end) rather than a speed of connection from fibre owners if possible. Also why owning your own fibre is good.

This news is a load of hype and has no real impact for end users. If you are lucky enough to have fibre to home or business directly the highest non-fibre speeds are puny.

We don't so much need faster fibre (though speed, spectrum & cpu power are like Sex and Chocolate), but to have fibre at all to kerb, cabinet or home.

A backhaul/Network cable install will not have a single fibre either, but up to a 100 is possible with steel armour etc in one "cable" pulled into a duct the same size as a conventional multipair copper (which beyond 5km is limited to less than 1Mbps, fibre can go 20km or more without a repeater these days).

An interesting tutorial here
http://www.arcelect.com/fibercable.htm


I have connection in work to internet ultimately by fibre that maxes out speed tests at about 25Mbps, 12mbps at home and 2Mbps + on a mobile system. Most sites download files or web pages at same speed on all of them. It makes little difference to email sending.

There is no doubt if you had 100Mbps fibre to the home (or to cabinet/kerb and 100Mbps via DOCSIS3 or VDSL to home) then IPTV/VOD would work. The problem is though at present it's pretty much a clunky version of Satellite / Cable and costs x10 to x1000 more to deliver than a Broadcast solution. VOD is the compelling application for Fibre, but the content providers are not makling content available at economic cost (or at all) and devlivery cost is x100 to x1000 higher than Cable/Satellite/DTT for such high speed Unicast UDP. No matter how fast the Fibre can go, due to fibre install costs and server costs and content royalties per item per user.

Conclusion:
The article is rubbish.

Typical Irish Tech Journalism. Tends to be reprints of Media Releases.

zugvogel

"Fritzley says, that anyone will be able to have as much bandwidth as they like on demand -- where and when they need it..."

So this is totally untrue then? I read this article in yesterdays Sindo and was wondering how they the hell they were going to deliver this over the last mile!

Snaga

Its not about the last mile at all - its about making high quality optics more affordable to get to market.

They have some clever software that can tune an optical transceiver to a specific wavelength a whole lot quicker than conventional methods, making it much quicker to get it to the customer (Where customer here is a Telco capable of affording and maintaining a DWDM network).

It is all about making it cheaper for Telco's to upgrade their backbone networks - it has nothing to do with the access network.

watty

WE have some great NGN backbones. The problem in Ireland is the "last mile" (or 10km..)

crawler

wot /\ he said.

Get DSM sorted for access then the core will need FTL's or any other form of dynamic/doped/adaptive/smart/tunable lazer technology required

crawler

Snaga wrote: »

Its not about the last mile at all - its about making high quality optics more affordable to get to market.

They have some clever software that can tune an optical transceiver to a specific wavelength a whole lot quicker than conventional methods, making it much quicker to get it to the customer (Where customer here is a Telco capable of affording and maintaining a DWDM network).

It is all about making it cheaper for Telco's to upgrade their backbone networks - it has nothing to do with the access network.

Globally I would agree - in Ireland, we hardly have the use for DWDM at all, CWDM is nearly enough if the fibre count is high enough and networks are built and optimised correctly.

EVERYTHING is about the access network - NGN does not exist without NGA. If it were not about access, we would not need regulation.

Snaga

Snaga wrote: »

Its not about the last mile at all - its about making high quality optics more affordable to get to market.

By "Its" I meant the Intune article - I was not for one second suggesting that the access network in Ireland was fine as it is

crawler

ah - the devil is always in the detail

glic83

in the last few posts im like a crow looking into a tayto bag lol

Skeam

I have reviewed the dialogue about Intune - suggest the evidence is on the companys website to deduct more or less what the solution is -crawler is the closest IMHO

jackdoes

I think Intunes technology is more about switching, getting data from the server side and distributing it more efficently.
The internet is more and more used for video and high bandwidth media. Right now this works but if a lot of users view the same data at the same time the server cannot deal with it. Intunes technology can cope with millions of simultanous users on smart phones, pc's, tv's etc.