| Technical description
Service management and operations typically achieve some level of cost efficiency by utilizing service-specific management systems linked to service-specific network technology. With expanded service offerings, providers must implement a converged service delivery platform with fewer system and network boundaries. This move facilitates a more open approach to the creation, provisioning and assurance of advanced IP services that span boundaries that exist within and between providers.
The IPsphere approach reduces barriers to innovation by using service abstraction and decomposition. This enables providers to optimize flexibility and efficiency by focusing on the translation of a generalized service offering into a set of generalized resource commitments to meet overall service goals.
This open approach to service management allows providers to address their specific priorities. The IPsphere framework delivers benefits to all stakeholders, including Service/Network Providers, Content and Application Providers and the consumers and businesses they serve.
The IPsphere framework implements three service types: - Inter-provider Service
- Intra-provider Service
- Vertical Partnering
IPsphere Field Trial
The IPsphere field trial conducted in 2008 moves beyond the specifications phase to a real world implementation that validates this flexible, open framework. The field trial simulates a consumer ordering an on-demand premium video content from a retail service provider. This order event triggers a series of inter-provider hand offs across multiple service and content providers in order to deliver content for the service.
The trial use case demonstrates the ability of the IPsphere framework to provide extended reach for premium service delivery. It includes service elements for transport, access and content provided by a combination of global network providers. The partnership for the field trial is brokered through IPsphere.
The field trial addressed the key IPsphere objectives: - Validate the IPsphere framework in a global partner scenario.
- Demonstrate the model for flexible content partnerships.
- Create, activate, and terminate advanced IP services.
- Show multi-vendor interoperability.
- Establish a global network platform for further testing and validation of IPsphere objectives
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