The Service Broker Forum is a multi-vendor association with the goal of evangelizing and educating the telecommunication industry on the service broker product category through the sharing of ideas, opinions, and knowledge. Founded by industry leaders in the Service Broker market space, the forum provides a common platform to facilitate discussion and communication around the many benefits that can be realized from utilizing Service Brokers within an overall network evolution strategy. Service brokers are defined as a standalone network element that efficiently manages service interaction and service composition. Service Brokers reside between the service layer and the converging network and is traditionally decoupled from the core switch and the service execution or service creation environment.