Tolerant Networks

Tolerant Networks was founded in April 2010 by Stephen Farrell and Kerry Hartnett.

Tolerant Networks was founded in April 2010 by Stephen Farrell and Kerry Hartnett. Dr. Stephen Farrell is a research fellow in the Distributed Systems Group of the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, (academic home page) where he teaches and researches on security and delay/disruption-tolerant networking (DTN), and in 2006 co-authored the first book on the latter topic. Stephen has been involved in Internet standards for more than a decade; currently he co-chairs the IETF DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Working Group, is an invited expert in the W3C Web Security Context group and also co-chairs the IRTF Delay Tolerant Networking Research Group. Prior to returning to academia in 2002, Stephen had 15 years experience in industry, working for Siemens and Baltimore Technologies amongst others. With over 20 years experience in IT Kerry Hartnett is an experienced and versatile senior IT professional. Kerry worked with Intel for 15 years in all aspects of IT. Commercially aware and results-orientated with a wide range of technical abilities, Kerry's planning and organisational skills have enabled him to repeatedly deliver complex integration projects to schedule. Kerry has a BSc. in Information Systems and is currently working on contract as a research engineer on the N4C project. Kerry's current focus is on new technology deployment in networks and research.