News

8/10/12 "LTE & Mobile Technology" Spirent - Alan Way & Data Edge host a seminar exploring the current issues arising from the technical demands of a full scale LTE roll out. The Seminar was a great success.

Slides downloadable from Alan's Wiki @ http://alantestwiki.pbworks.com
(As soon as he sees your request, he’ll authorise you)

Over 38 Attendees. Alan's explanation of LTE technologies and how they link was fascinating. The feedback was universally positive, with most attendees saying they would recommend the Seminar to their colleagues.

6/12/11 IPv6 Spirent & Data Edge host an IPv6 Training morning. A Great success.

Download IPv6 Seminar Slides.pdf
download IPv6 Testing Whitepaper.pdf
Download Spirent journal of ipv6 pass methodologies.pdf

Spirent's Chris Ward and Steve Jarmin gave an indebth presentation on how to manage the transition to an IPv6 world. Lots of coffee mingling and discussion. The feedback was universally positive, with most attendees saying they would recommend the workshop to their colleagues.

21/9/11 "The Cloud" Spirent - Alan Way & Data Edge host a seminar exploring the current exploding Cloud/Data Centre Phenomina. A Great success.

Slides downloadable from Alan's Wiki @ http://alantestwiki.pbworks.com
(As soon as he sees your request, he’ll authorise you)

Over 35 Attendes. Alan's in debth explanation of current Cloud technologies and it's amazing growth/scale was fascinating. The feedback was universally positive, with most attendees saying they would recommend the Seminar to their colleagues.

16/11/10 DATA EDGE’S RF and Optical Training day. A Great success.

16/11/10 DATA EDGE’S RF and Optical Training day.

Over 50 Attendes. 20 pieces of instrumentation. Lots of coffee and hands on testing. The feedback was universally positive, with most attendees saying they would recommend the workshop to their colleagues. Many included the suggestion that we hold this type of event again.
We plan to hold a further event next year, probably in April or May, covering related topics and will keep you informed about the date and contents.

11/3/09 DATA EDGE’S €500K DEAL WITH TELECOMS REVOLUTIONARY INTUNE NETWORKS

Intune’s next generation network gets Data Edge’s ‘Quality of Service’ seal of approval Data Edge partnership has fast-tracked Intune’s market launch by several months Intune has invested €30m in developing its technology to target the €8 billion global metro telecommunications market.

Dublin, 11 March, 2009. Data Edge, Ireland’s largest network and application performance management company, today announced a two year deal worth more than €500k with Intune Networks. Intune is the world-leading Irish developer of next generation network infrastructure. Data Edge is testing and optimising the performance of Intune’s telecoms infrastructure to help it fulfill its promise of changing the way the world experiences the internet.

Intune Networks has invented a very efficient optical transport and switch network that provides almost limitless bandwidth with guaranteed service quality. Intelligent networks are crucial when trying to distribute large data volumes and deliver quality levels similar to broadcast formats like HDTV. With Intune’s technology, home users will soon be able to watch television services such as You-Tube in high definition and in real time. Business users can benefit from IPTV, high definition video conferencing, and significantly higher bandwidth services. €30m has been invested in Intune to-date, as it targets the global metro telecommunications market, estimated at €8 billion.

As Ireland’s leading provider of network performance management tools, Data Edge was chosen by Intune Networks to help fast-track the development of its product by several months during its rigorous performance testing and optimisation phase. Using Spirent Communications’ technology, Data Edge ran exhaustive measurements of bandwidth capacity and latency - down to the nanosecond. These are critical determinants in the end-user experience of the Internet, and crucial components of Intune’s competitive advantage.

Tim Fritzley, CEO, Intune Networks, said, “We believe that our technology has the potential to transform the global telecommunications market. There’s been enormous interest in our company over the last few years, reaching a crescendo in recent months as we prepare for our launch. In partnership with Data Edge, we’ve been able to prove the quality of our service, accelerate our market readiness, and reduce the capital and operational costs of development.”

Paul Phelan, CTO, Data Edge, said, “This has been one of the most challenging and rewarding projects in our twenty year history. Intune has made one of the most important communications technology advancements in a decade. It will help in the repositioning of Ireland as a hotbed of innovation and investment for global IT research and development.”

Silicon Republic 19.02.2009

Data Edge secures €120,000 deal with pan-European finance network

Bray-based network test and equipment player Data Edge has won a deal valued at €120,000 to deploy a network fault test system for a pan-European firm that processes €200bn-worth of transactions a year. Data Edge was contracted to deploy the CA Spectrum network fault manager, which links to every credit-card terminal on Elavon’s European transaction-processing network.

Every year, Elavon processes two billion transactions valued at €200bn. Elavon has its European headquarters in Dublin, and employs more than 350 people at Cherrywood and Arklow. Its transaction-processing network links tens of thousands of credit-card terminals in shops, hotels, restaurants and other outlets across Europe, and allows customers to charge purchases to their cards wherever they are. On a well-designed system such as Elavon’s, where extensive redundancy and diversity are built in, it can be difficult to spot faults and even more difficult to identify their root cause.

Within minutes of installation, CA Spectrum automatically started to map Elavon’s network across 15 countries, and immediately began analysing performance and highlighting anomalies. Every transaction on the Elavon system is time-critical. Card authorisations that are slow or fail to complete lead to queues in shops, frustrated consumers and, worst of all, lost sales.

“CA Spectrum acts like a smoke alarm – alerting engineers instantly to a problem before it can affect transactions,” explained Brian McBride, managing director, Data Edge.

“With our solution in place, consumers and businesses across Europe can make credit-card transactions without hassle. CA Spectrum is also being used on Elavon’s internal networks, and supports the convergence of their data, video and voice over IP (VoIP) functions across seven countries.

This is matched with its reach to every credit-card terminal on the network, encompassing links by a huge range of telecommunications protocols, including frame relay, ISDN, IP, MPLS, leased line and even traditional copper phone lines.

Data Edge provides ongoing support for the Europe-wide solution from its headquarters in Bray. “On a financial network like ours, we must be able to deal with problems before they impact on transactions,” explained Chris Garvey, European datacoms manager, Elavon.

“Data Edge’s solution allows us to do that, while also giving us much better visibility of our network. Within days of installation, a fault in the network in Germany that could have impacted processing was spotted.

“CA Spectrum identified the root cause immediately; the appropriate response and resources were directed to resolving it before it had an impact on customers,” Garvey added.

By John Kennedy
ComputerScope August 2003 - Page 39"

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Email: bmcbride@dataedge.ie