Wireless Broadband Alliance Retains Key Board Members as Adoption of Next Generation Wi-Fi Gathers Pace

WBA announces the re-election of JR Wilson (AT&T) and Dr. Derek Peterson (Boingo Wireless) as respective Chair and Co-Chair of the WBA board of directors London, UK, September 1st 2022: The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced the re-election of its chair and co-chair to the board of directors. JR Wilson, Vice President of Tower Strategy and Roaming at AT&T, will continue as Chairman of the WBA. Mr. Wilson has served as board chairman since 2012, during which time the WBA has made great strides toward creating a seamless, secure…

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AWS Joins Board of prpl Foundation to Standardize Orchestration of CPE Software with the Cloud

Framingham, Massachusetts, 05 January 2021: prpl Foundation today announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has joined its board. The announcement aims to help standardize cloud-based application orchestration to manage the life cycles of containerized software components for next-generation customer-premises equipment (CPE) software stacks. This will enable service providers to more easily scale operations through the containerization of apps and services, moving away from monolithic firmware updates to a modularized approach that allows for simplified CPE application deployments and updates. AWS has joined the Board of prpl Foundation to collaborate with…

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Small Cell Forum Announces New Board and Member Intake for 2019/20

New members, including Colt, Dense Air and Radysis join to strengthen Forum’s new work programs and continue their critical work in 5G-era London, UK 28th October 2019 – Small Cell Forum (SCF), the telecoms organization making mobile infrastructure solutions available to all, has announced a new board for the coming year and new members from across the wireless and internet ecosystems, further expanding the organisation’s breadth of expertise in developing 5G Open Small Cell RAN architectures and 5G-era small cell products. New members include; Analog Device, Askey Computers, Colt, Dense…

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Calix Senior Director Bernd Hesse Elected to Broadband Forum Board of Directors

Hesse brings new depth of experience to the Board of the world’s largest broadband standards forum   ATHENS, Greece – April 3, 2018 – Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today 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 innovations to support the Broadband Forum in its ongoing work to define and deliver ubiquitous, next-generation access technologies.   Hesse…

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