Nice, France — Juniper Networks has announced, in partnership with Net One Systems, a landmark IPsphere Service Management System (SMS) software solution to the TM Forum at Management World. The solution features IPsphere SMS software developed by Net One Systems, to utilize Juniper Networks advanced routing and policy management capabilities.
Contribution of this solution makes, for the first time, Net One Systems' IPsphere SMS source code available to the more than 700 members of the TM Forum community to enable rapid adoption, experimentation and further development of the standards-based IPsphere framework.
The TM Forum's IPsphere program brings together leading service providers, hardware and software suppliers and research organizations, to demonstrate a new level of business flexibility for advanced IP services-with the assurance of an industry-standard approach. IPsphere enables service and content provider partners to combine resources in new ways to create compelling and assured end-to-end services-even across traditional network boundaries, according to the companies. Chief to the IPsphere framework's benefits is enablement of frictionless collaboration and new business models between all service providers in the value chain, including network service and content providers.