Summary:
Driven by the need of Quality of Service and the provision of existing services and newly upcoming services through a packet based infrastructure – namely the Internet –, the need for new network provider services and a new network architecture came up. The IPsphere Forum tries to solve these challenges by the introduction of a three strata model, which means basically going along the widely discussed three overlay model for the Internet – this is not part of this document but will be briefly explained. The upper stratum or overlay, which is responsible for the service provisioning, is in the clear focus of IPsphere. This document describes the vision, the architecture, and the mechanisms.
Keywords: IPsphere Forum, specification, architecture, Service Structuring Stratum.
Publication date: 01-08-2009
IIT-09-132I
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