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2024 Elections Now Open

Electronic ballots for the 2024 Board of Directors, Marketing Chair, and Technical Chair elections are open until June 17, 2024.

- Board of Directors: Vote for 6 candidates

- Marketing Chair: Vote for 1 candidate

- Technical Chair: Vote for 1 candidate

Results will be announced via email at the annual meeting.

Principal Member companies are eligible to vote.

The voting representatives of Principal Members of the Broadband Forum elect the Board of Directors of the Broadband Forum.

If you have questions about your company or eligible voters, please email me at krocha@broadband-forum.org

Open Ballots

Click here to check Straw and Final Ballots open now.

Upcoming Ballots

These Ballots will be opening soon.

New Projects - NPIFs

Initiation of a new Broadband Forum project, including amendments, requires creation of a New Project Initiation Form (NPIF).
Access BBF's current NPIFs here.
All Principal and Associate/Regional Operator Members may participate and contribute to work in progress. Auditing Members are welcome to track or upgrade to Principal to participate.

BBF's May Newsletter

Stay Informed with the Latest in Broadband Forum News!
Click here to access the May newsletter.

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Our Spring Member Meeting saw our biggest attendance in more than 15 years, drawing 158 attendees to Mainz, Germany. We have enjoyed a very productive meeting, and continue to build on the success of 2023, with 16 new work area projects started and two new Open Broadband projects launched since our last meeting.

In Mainz, the home to the invention of Gutenberg’s printing press and no stranger to ground-breaking tech innovation, we opened the meeting with discussions on the latest significant breakthrough in tech history. Bringing together technology innovators from across the industry, our Town Hall Innovation Series explored the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in broadband networks. The BASe Technical and USP Summits took place in tandem with our member meeting and was highly attended with a host of engaging plenary sessions, roundtables, and video demonstrations. The three events amassed a total of 243 registered attendees across five days.

Thank you to all of our work area directors, project stream leaders, editors, and contributors for their continuous dedication in building universally adopted open standards and open-source software. Talking with many of the attendees, there was real energy and enthusiasm surrounding the ongoing work and direction of the Broadband Forum... Read more.

2023 Q1 Meeting

Thanks for joining us in Addison, Texas, USA
Opening Plenary - download the slides
Closing Plenary - download the slides
Tell us what you think - Take the Meeting Survey

Board of Directors Elections

Nominations now open! Learn more
Candidate statements due by 24 April 2023
Voting opens on 1 May 2023
Election will take place on 5 June, at the Q2 meeting
Nominate yourself or someone else as a candidate

NEW Email List!

smarthome@broadband-forum.org
Open email list for the Smart Home Project Stream in the BUS Work Area - updates about meetings, major document changes, and more.
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2023 Upcoming Meetings

Q2: 5-8 June (Europe)
Q3: 5-8 September (Virtual)
Q4: 4-7 December (Asia-Pacific)

**How to become a BBF Sponsor**

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The Open Broadband initiative permeates virtually all Broadband Forum project areas. Read More.

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Membership Renewal Justification Presentation (PDF)

Areas of Focus and Innovation (PDF)

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Membership privileges

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List of Current Members

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title	Omdia Fiber Development Index

Just Released: A summary version of the Fiber Development Index is now available only to members of the Broadband Forum.

Omdia’s Fiber Development Index tracks and benchmarks the fiber development across 88 countries. Unlike other fiber benchmarks that largely track coverage or household penetration, as fiber investment is vital to the quality delivery of all data services, Omdia’s benchmark takes into account a much wider set of metrics including fiber household coverage, household penetration, business penetration, mobile cell site fiber penetration, backbone investment, average download and upload speeds, jitter, and latency. Learn more.

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Editor's Guidelines

Forum Organization and Committees

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Published Technical Reports

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2024 Broadband Forum Meetings:

Summer & Annual Meeting: June 17-20 Incheon, South Korea
- Hotel Reservation Deadline Friday, May 24, 2024
Download Summer Meeting Justification Letter. Request an editable version from info@broadband-forum.org
A preview of the Detailed Agenda is now available for viewing!

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Fall:November 18-21 (Americas)

2025 Broadband Forum Meetings:

Spring: March 10 - 13 (Asia)

**Learn about becoming a BBF Meeting Sponsor here**

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Thank you for joining us in Addison, Texas for the Q1 2023 Meeting!

View the Detailed Agenda
Opening Plenary - download the slides
Closing Plenary - download the slides
Tell us what you think - Take the Meeting Survey

Thank you to our Q1 Exclusive Meeting Sponsor:

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	Access and Transport Architecture (ATA)
	Broadband User Services (BUS)
	Common YANG
	Fiber Access Networks (FAN)
	Open Broadband
	Physical Layer Transmission (PHYtx)
	SDN and NFV
	Wireless-Wireline Convergence (WWC)

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BBF uses Slack for chat and instant message.

Request an invite from BBF

Channels:

general: ask a question about BBF.
usp-questions: ask a question about USP/TR-369 on development, use cases, and implementation.
doglover: just for fun - photos encouraged
And more!

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Broadband Forum Quarterly Spring Newsletter

Assigned Names and Numbers

Software Release Registry

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Teleconferences

2023 Upcoming Meetings

Subscribe to Email Lists

Past Meetings

Watch Broadband Forum Webinars

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Broadband Forum BASe Events

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BASe events examine the hottest topics and challenges in broadband today,
carefully curating subjects that are impacting the success of broadband deployments around the world.

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Read about the impact, opportunities, and benefits for BASe sponsors here.

UPCOMING BASe Webinars for 2024

June 6th - Advancements in Broadband User Services and Customer Experience

June 27th - QoE and Service Differentiation

Sept 19th - Sustainability in the Broadband Home and Network

September 5th - Driving Broadband Value-Add Services, Service platforms and Commercial App Provider Relationships

October 24th - State of PON / State of Play: PON

November 7th - Fixed Mobile Convergence Opportunities

Contact Rhonda Heier for more details .if your company would like to present thought leadership on any of the above topics.

Thank you to our Sponsors:

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PON Interopability- Current and Future Critical Needs Webinar

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Teleconferences

2024 Upcoming Meetings

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Past Meetings

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Coming Soon!

Read our past newsletters.

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Connected Home Council

Wi-Fi Performance Testing

Cloud Central Office (CloudCO)

Software Projects

User Services Platform (USP)

Wireless-Wireline Convergence: 5G

prpl / BBF Collaboration

All Active Projects

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We love hearing from our members! Contact us any time with feedback or questions by emailing help@broadband-forum.org.

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Broadband Forum uses a collaborative suite of tools created by Atlassian. These tools allow our members to collaborate real-time across the industry and across the globe.

The Wiki (also known as Confluence) is for administration - meetings, agendas, project descriptions, and more.
Jira is a project management database used to progress BBF projects, and holds draft Working Texts (WTs), contributions, and ballot comments.
Bitbucket is a code repository.
Bamboo is a continuous integration server.

Additional software tools include FishEye, Crucible, SonarQube, Artifactory, and others - these are used for BBF's Open Broadband (OB) work.

All BBF members have access to these tools - Sign up and review our members-only FAQ for more information.

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