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23 June, 2020Broadband Forum CEO, Robin Mersh has congratulated the broadband industry on its response to COVID-19 and how it has risen to the challenge of the unprecedented spike in traffic it brought. But he warned the pandemic has highlighted the urgent need for work to continue on automation and bridging the digital divide. (more…)
28 February, 2020Operators looking to leverage their fixed networks to deliver on the promise of 5G will soon have new tools at their disposal as Broadband Forum wraps up the development of two new standards and delivers on its promise to rapidly support the 3GPP release cycles. (more…)
30 May, 2018Fibre and cable networks are dominating the global broadband market, with the technologies now servicing 77% of fixed subscriptions, new figures from Point Topic have revealed. According to the Global Broadband Statistics, which take into account subscriptions up to the end of 2017, (more…)
04 April, 2018Calix, Inc. announced Bernd Hesse, Calix senior director of technology development, has been elected to the Broadband Forum’s Board of Directors during last week’s quarterly meeting in Athens, Greece. Hesse brings his extensive experience leading industry forums and creating momentum for leading-edge broadband (more…)
21 February, 2018Pioneering development work in 5G, CloudCO and network virtualisation was cited by Kevin Foster, Chairman of the Broadband Forum as one of the key reasons for its growth in 2017, with the announcement of a further 14 new members. (more…)
07 December, 2017The Broadband Forum announced it is working on a landmark project with NTT to standardise the virtualisation of operators’ PON networks to support the delivery of Time Critical Applications (TCAs), such as 5G fronthaul. (more…)
15 September, 2017The first standard for distributed virtualised Customer Premises Equipment (vCPE) has been published by the Broadband Forum as it continues to accelerate its work on Open Broadband, CloudCentral Office (CO) and SD-WAN. (more…)
25 November, 2016In an industry environment where operators are looking to launch new, competitive ultrafast services and vendors are evolving to meet an ever-changing customer base, the need for a defined set of standards for Fibre to the Distribution Point (FTTdp) has never been greater. (more…)
16 August, 2016The first ever specifications for the virtual Residential Gateway have been released by the Broadband Forum as it concluded work on what is said to be a landmark project to bring virtualisation into the home. (more…)
28 July, 2016The Broadband Forum has entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Open Networking Laboratory (ON.Lab), with the aim of accelerating the development of future broadband requirements and standards in close collaboration with open source projects. (more…)
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