Juniper's Dillon Named President, CTO of TrueBaseline

Longtime IP evangelist and Juniper Networks Inc. executive Kevin Dillon has joined TrueBaseline Corp. as president and CTO.

Formerly vice president of the technology office at Juniper, Dillon is better known internationally as the chairman of the IPSphere Forum (IPSF), which has worked to define an IP framework linking carriers and networks to deliver profitable IP services.

Dillon, who has been chairman of the IPSF since its inception, was instrumental in helping the group evolve beyond its roots two years ago as a unit many saw as driven by Juniper to a true multivendor effort.

The IPSF's carrier members include Verizon Communications Inc., TELUS, Telefonica, Telstra, Telenor, France Telecom, Deutsch Telekom, Korea Telecom and BT, while its vendor members include Alcatel-Lucent, Avici Systems, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, HP, NEC, Nokia Siemens Networks, Juniper, Tellabs and TrueBaseline.

The former Juniper exec did not detail the circumstances surrounding his departure from the company, nor his decision to take over at TrueBaseline. Dillon’s last day at Juniper was July 6, said a company spokesperson who didn’t detail the departure.

Times have been challenging in the core router market with Avici essentially exiting it in mid-April to focus on software offerings through a newly created SoapStone Networks company, leaving it to battle Cisco for this and related service provider hardware business. 

At TrueBaseline Dillon will be in charge of technology strategy, sales and marketing, and business development.

Dillon did say Pittsburgh-based TrueBaseline is in the process of establishing a Melbourne, Australia-based software engineering and APAC sales office. Dillon, who has long been based there, will lead the effort in that country, TrueBaseline said.

His new employer lists its TrueSMS Services Framework as a next-generation management system based upon a service oriented architecture, Web services and object model framework.

TrueBaseline says it framework is the first, universal service delivery platform designed to “orchestrate inter-domain operations processes associated with new service and revenue generation, while balancing this with operational expenditures and complexity reduction, for service providers.”

In late February, TrueBaseline and Avici’s SoapStone Networks, which recently joined the IPSF as a full member, announced a technology partnership to develop, market and deploy service management solutions based on their combined product set. These solutions, they said, will conform to international standards defined by the TeleManagement Forum, IPsphere Forum and ITU.

That tracks with Dillon’s efforts at the IPSF, which announced late last month the signing of key liaison agreements with three leading industry consortia: the MFA Forum, the MultiService Forum (MSF) and the TeleManagement Forum. The IPsphere Forum said it actively sought relationships with these organizations “in driving its charter of unleashing the business and societal benefits of IP convergence.”

“MFA Forum, MSF, and TM Forum have made great strides in the mission to enhance the long term innovation abilities of the networking industry,” said Dillon, at the time, in prepared comments. “We look forward to working with each of these organizations to further this endeavor and believe that our approach to a universal operations framework for multistakeholder service management brings a critical element to the mix.”

IPSphere Forum www.ipsphereforum.org
Juniper Networks Inc. www.juniper.net
TrueBaseline Corp. www.truebaseline.com

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