IPsphere

The Business of  IP

IPsphere was established in 2005 with the charter of developing an open multi-stakeholder web-services framework for the rapid creation and automated deployment of IP-based services. 

Founding organisations include BT, Cisco, France Telecom, Juniper, Lucent, RedZinc, Siemens, Telenor and Tellabs.

IPsphere posits that an automated framework is required for federating the resources of multiple service stakeholders – such as content providers and network operators –into end-to-end services. This framework also proposes that each participant in the service offering is recompensed for their contribution.

Simply put, IPsphere works like this:

• Service Providers publishes wholesale service offer.
• A partner service provider or webco selects service offer
• Partner service provider negotiates & invokes resources in multiple networks using IPsphere SSS bus.
• The customer benefits by obtaining end to end quality of service across multiple networks

In 2008 IPsphere merged into  the TM Forum. More information about the IPsphere  can be found here.