News and BusinessThe Broadband Forum has established the Broadband Forum Executive Advisory Board (EAB), which it says is the next stage of intelligent, services-led broadband and will be supported by fixed and wireless industry standards. Consisting of major broadband companies from across the globe, the Forum says the new body will ensure that the future investment needs […]
News and BusinessThe Broadband Forum has published two new standards which it says will help operators reduce the time and cost associated with onboarding new Optical Network Unit (ONU) vendors, roll-out services faster, and more easily migrate and evolve their networks by applying new innovations and flexibility. The TR-451 vOMCI and MR-451 ONU Management using Virtualised OMCI […]
News and BusinessMoCA®, (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) and the Broadband Forum, have partnered to offer PON fibre network providers and service operators a low-cost fibre access extension standard using existing coaxial cabling and Fibre to the Extension Point (FTTep) architecture. The technology has been pioneered largely by Sweden-based InCoax, which has seen its In:xtnd product gain traction […]
Applications and ResearchThe Broadband Forum and NTT have successfully demonstrated how Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) can be applied to Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) to eliminate the need for operators to rebuild an OLT from the preliminary stage of development. This will, for example, negate the need to remake the PON chip, which […]
News and BusinessBASE event in Athens at the end of March brought together more than 300 delegates from entire “broadband value chain”. A new concept of broadband is on target to be achieved as the industry experiences an era of unparalleled change and challenge, and networks transform to meet the opportunities of 5G, “cloudification”, the Internet of […]