LONDON, ENGLAND – December 13, 2022 – Pantacor today announced its industry-first “any device, any manufacturer” containerized app store and services management solution specifically engineered for lightweight edge devices, from legacy to modern. To reinforce its commitment to align with – and actively contribute its extensive field experience toward – the forthcoming WT-492 Software-Based Architecture for the App-Enabled Services Gateway Design Principles standard, Pantacor has joined Broadband Forum as Principal Member. Pantacor’s announcement comes in collaboration with industry and Broadband Forum member premise edge device and chipset manufacturers in response…
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Broadband Forum automates, accelerates cloud-based access deployment
Fremont, California, August 22, 2018: The Broadband Forum today announced the first code release and documentation of its new Open Broadband project – Broadband Access Abstraction (OB-BAA) to enable standardized, automated and accelerated deployment of new cloud-based access infrastructure and services. What differentiates this Open Broadband reference implementation is that it facilitates co-existence, seamless migration and the agility to adapt to an increasingly wide variety of software defined access models – the key business and operational challenge in creating a potentially vast market. “OB-BAA enables operators to optimize their decision-making…
Read MoreBroadband Forum hits 5G milestone
Fremont, California, June 20, 2018: Operators looking to quickly and cost-effectively deliver new 5G services are today a step closer to being able to do so, as the Broadband Forum and NTT successfully demonstrated the disaggregation of time-critical PON functions. Launched with NTT last year, the PON Abstraction Interface for Time Critical Applications (TCAs) project looks at how Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) can be applied to Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) to eliminate the need for operators to rebuild an OLT from the preliminary stage of…
Read MoreCalix 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…
Read MoreXGS-PON interoperability advances after second Plugfest
LAN-hosted event in Tauxigny, France, brought together 13 companies Tauxigny, France, November 13, 2017: Leading industry names from across the globe came together to accelerate the development of PON technology at the second XGS-PON Interoperability Plugfest. XGS-PON is based on the ITU-T’s latest Recommendation (ITU-T G.9807.1), providing a symmetrical 10Gbit/s capability over a fiber infrastructure that can co-exist with legacy 2.5Gbit/s G-PON. Organized by Laboratoire des Applications Numériques (LAN), in collaboration with the Full Service Access Network (FSAN) Group and the Broadband Forum, this year’s Plugfest focused on interoperability between…
Read MoreO’Byrne: NG-PON2 can be the key for long-term success
Operators hail next-generation technologies ahead of the Forum’s Access Summit Berlin, Germany, and Las Vegas, U.S. – October 16, 2017: Next-generation fiber technologies such as NG-PON2 represent a paradigm shift in the access space and a more certain path towards long-term success, according to Vincent O’Byrne, Director of Technology at Verizon. This viewpoint is among others that will be explored by the Broadband Forum’s Access Summit, which features operators and manufacturers, as well as industry insight from Light Reading, IHS and the Fiber Broadband Association. Taking place at Broadband World…
Read MoreThree-fold jump in Gfast certifications aligns with service provider momentum
Now at 24 from the initial 7, with ADTRAN, EXFO and Viavi joining the systems vendor list Fremont, California, 6 September 2017. The Broadband Forum announced today that the number of certified-interoperable Gfast solutions has jumped from 7 to 24 in less than three months, as mass deployment of the ultrafast access technology builds. ADTRAN, EXFO and Viavi have been added to the list of companies whose products have successfully completed the Gfast certification program from the Broadband Forum and University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). “From recent leading…
Read MoreStart-ups and telecoms giants among latest additions to Broadband Forum as 15 new members join
Fremont, California, 26 June 2017. The Broadband Forum today announced it has welcomed 15 new members – including three start-ups – as it continues to address the fast-changing broadband landscape. The broad range of industry expertise displayed by the new member companies highlights the continuously expanding breadth of the Broadband Forum’s work which has grown to include a strong focus on next-generation broadband technologies such as virtualization, Software Defined Networks (SDN), the Internet of Things (IoT), next-generation optical networks, 5G and Gfast. The latest additions are CableLabs, EANTC, Fujitsu Limited,…
Read MoreBroadband Forum makes rapid progress on CloudCO, 5G and Open Broadband
Work on acceleration of CloudCO and high-value 5G use cases are key highlights of the Q2 meeting supported by Chunghwa Telecom TAIPEI, Taiwan – May 18, 2017: The Broadband Forum today announced it is making significant progress on five projects relating to the realization and implementation of Cloud Central Office (CloudCO), which is scheduled for later this year. Preparations to stage and test the implementations are also under way at the first Open Broadband Lab, in Asia, announced earlier this month. The CloudCO projects encompass architecture and hardware, as well…
Read MoreBroadband Forum and SDN/NFV Industry Alliance partner on network transformation
Partnership will establish the Open Broadband Laboratory Asia to accelerate network transformation and the evolution to cloud services Beijing, China, 2 May 2017. The Broadband Forum and SDN/NFV Industry Alliance today announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly set up an Open Broadband Laboratory Asia (OBLA) and promote the development of network transformation and cloud evolution. The partnership – which was signed during the China SDN/NFV Conference in Beijing last week – also introduces the Forum’s Open Broadband initiative, with a mission to create an open…
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