IPsphere Forum
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The IPsphere Forum was an international non-profit consortium of computer network
equipment manufacturers, IT companies and communications service providers. It 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 were BT
, Cisco
, France Telecom
, Huawei
, 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.
The IPsphere Forum sets priorities for and oversees internal working groups that are tasked with developing the IPsphere Framework’s associated computing, networking and business standards and protocols. The IPsphere Forum announced liaison agreements with industry consortia working on related issues, including the IP/MPLS Forum, the MultiService Forum and the TeleManagement Forum (TM FOrum). In 2008 the IPsphere Forum merged into the TM Forum.
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equipment manufacturers, IT companies and communications service providers. It 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.
History
IPsphere Forum was founded in June 2005 at the Supercomm Event in ChicagoChicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
. Founding organisations were BT
BT Group
BT Group plc is a global telecommunications services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is one of the largest telecommunications services companies in the world and has operations in more than 170 countries. Through its BT Global Services division it is a major supplier of...
, Cisco
Cisco
Cisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...
, France Telecom
France Télécom
France Telecom S.A. is the main telecommunications company in France, the third-largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 180,000 people and has 192.7 million customers worldwide . In 2010 the group had revenue of €45.5 billion...
, Huawei
Huawei
Huawei is a Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China...
, Juniper
Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks is an information technology and computer networking products multinational company, founded in 1996. It is head quartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. The company designs and sells high-performance Internet Protocol network products and services...
, Lucent, RedZinc, Siemens, Telenor
Telenor
Telenor Group is the incumbent telecommunications company in Norway, with headquarters located at Fornebu, close to Oslo. Today, Telenor Group is mostly an international wireless carrier with operations in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia, working predominantly under the Telenor brand...
and Tellabs
Tellabs
Tellabs, Inc. is a telecommunications company that designs and manufactures equipment for service providers.Ranked among the BusinessWeek InfoTech 100, Tellabs is part of the NASDAQ-100 Index, NASDAQ Global Select Market, Ocean Tomo 300 Patent Index and the S&P 500...
.
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.
The IPsphere Forum sets priorities for and oversees internal working groups that are tasked with developing the IPsphere Framework’s associated computing, networking and business standards and protocols. The IPsphere Forum announced liaison agreements with industry consortia working on related issues, including the IP/MPLS Forum, the MultiService Forum and the TeleManagement Forum (TM FOrum). In 2008 the IPsphere Forum merged into the TM Forum.