Service Creation Community

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By Tim Greene
04:04 PM EST

A handful of vendors and analysts has launched a group called the Service Creation Community with the intention of helping service providers roll out new services faster.

So far they have just sketched out what they plan to do:

= Design templates for delivering new services.

= Resolve interoperability issues among members' gear.

= Create demand for new services.

= Create demand for their own products.

Companies involved include: ADC Telecommunications, AirFiber, AMS, Array Networks, Com21, C-Plane, Convedia, EurekaSoft, Infonautics Consulting, Kabira Technologies, Maranti Networks, Microsoft, net.com, Paradyne, PingTel, Polycom, Siemens, StarVox and TeleChoice.

The Service Creation Community is demonstrating a video on demand service here at SuperComm that includes gear from 11 of the members and say they are discussing more during the show. They even have a Web site www.servicecreation.org that you can check out.

Historically, this type of consortium pops up from time to time and runs out of steam in a year or two, but the point man for the group, net.com's president and CEO Bert Whyte, says that won't be the case here. He urges people to keep them active. "Demand demonstrations. Ask 'What has the Service Creation Community done for me lately?" Whyte said.

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