Intune secures European funding in GBP 1.7 mln project

Packet optical transport technology provider Intune Networks has secured funding in a GBP 1.7 million multinational initiative, aiming to deliver high speed internet access to meet the needs of homes and businesses across Europe. Intune Networks' Active Distributed and Dynamic Optical Network Access Systems (Addonas) will aim to develop photonic technology and systems that would enable widespread broadband access of at least 1 Gbps by 2015-20. Intune Networks will receive GBP 520,000 funding as part of the programme. The PIANO+ initiative, spearheaded by the European Commission (EC) and co-funded by the UK government-backed Technology Strategy Board, called for collaborative research and development proposals under the EC's ERA-NET Plus scheme. PIANO+ aims to promote investment in the development of enhanced optical access technologies. Using the funding from PIANO+, Intune Networks has developed a low energy technology that will enable fast broadband speeds in the future while still meeting the short-term needs of the system operators and users. The Addonas architecture aims to make the network programmable and allow it to be engineered to deliver QoS. As well as be scalable up to 64TBps of total capacity to enable economical support for symmetrical 1Gbps access to end users, it aims to provide full transmission for both point to point and switched services.