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A new business layer for IP networks: with Alcatel and Cisco on board, the Infranet is now the IPsphere: an inter-carrier automation tool for policy, provisioning and billing settlement.(INFRASTRUCTURE)
Business Communications Review, July, 2005 by Nolle, Tom
Two years ago on an investor call, Juniper CEO Scott Kriens called the Internet a "failed business experiment" and proposed a new concept for IP carrier network deployment, called "the Infranet." The idea was to create a more secure and better-performing IP network experience. Since then, the company has ceded control over and development of these concepts to a trade group called the "Infranet Initiative Council" or IIC.
At press time, the IIC had just announced a restructuring and a name change: Both the trade group organization and the Infranet itself will now be called IPsphere. Although many of the founding members were Juniper partners, the body also attracted service providers, particularly from Europe. When working groups began to meet in 2004...
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