(Source: Irish Times)
By ADAM MAGUIRE
THE FIRST project to use the Government's Exemplar network as a
test bed will be showcased next week at TM Forum's Management World
2011, a global communications conference being held in Dublin for
the first time.
Called Dynamic Desktop, the project was developed by Irish
companies Intune Networks, Openet and Amartus and shows how their
respective technologies can give network operators on-demand access
to additional bandwidth.
"The service we're demonstrating here allows a customer to
request an on-demand improvement in bandwidth quality," said John
Dunne, co-founder and chief technology officer of Intune Networks.
"This has never been done before in any network in the world and is
the first demonstration of it."
The goal is to create "liquid bandwidth", which will allow
operators charge customers based on the bandwidth they use, thus
generating more revenue for operators from networks and adding
flexibility to network connections.
Mr Dunne said liquid bandwidth would be attractive to companies
that need constant, quality network connections.
To provide the bandwidth flexibility, Dynamic Desktop uses
Intune's optical packet switch and transport technology; Openet's
policy charging and control software; and Amartus's service
commander. BT is also supporting the project and all four companies
involved are developing commercially their respective aspects of it,
said Mr Dunne.
Openet CEO Niall Morton said the role of its software is to
direct Intune's physical network to allocate bandwidth to different
places at different times.
"At a very high level, our software acts to instruct the Intune
hardware to dynamically allocate bandwidth depending on the services
of the subscriber," he said.
He added that the Exemplar network proved a perfect test bed and
is potentially a great asset for the country. "We work with 95
different operators across the world and the Exemplar network, for
us, is as real-life as it gets . . . It's a big, data-grade network
and provides a very good analogy to any real operator," he said.
The network was launched by the last Government as a means by
which companies could deploy and test projects in a fibre-optic
network. By the end of 2010, [euro]15 million had been committed to
the network by the State and future phases will see it grow
nationally from a Dublin base.
Originally published by ADAM MAGUIRE.
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