The world is getting flatter and flatter, hierarchies and structures leave way to way to mesh and mash ups. Value chains morphs into ecosystems. The impact on the biz is significant. What are the new challenges that the management of networks and services have to meet? In addition, ecosystems tend to have a much more dynamic sense of stability, their evolution is subtle in the short term but can be staggering in the longer term. And as they evolve they may overlap and this leads to dramatic changes in the way biz and supporting infrastructures are shaped. Words like pervasive and ubiquitous may assume a quite different connotation: no more something planned and directed from the center to the edges under the control of few actors, rather something happening as result of loosely related actions originating at the edges. The talk will address the broad picture to stimulate thinking on the direction for the next steps, both in fixed and mobile infrastructures as well as in the changing paradigm of service creation and provisioning.