Moving To A Service Creation Model.(Supercomm)(Industry Overview)

The buzz at this year's Supercomm was about service creation, and while it seemed that every networking vendor was promising new ways of delivering services, both enterprises and service providers face hurdles in moving from "here to there."

Enterprises and service providers view the problem from different perspectives. Enterprises wonder about how to fit their business processes into what the network can deliver, while service providers focus on understanding how new network demand or applications will impact their network.

Enterprises view networks essentially as plumbing, into which information is jammed. The size and quality of the plumbing will depend on what the enterprise can afford, but they have little control over the delivered service. All …