The call for Nominations is now Open for the board of Directors, Marketing, and Technical Chair

• Elections will be held on June 17th, 2024, at the Summer Annual Meeting.

• Employees of Principal Member companies are eligible to be nominated. 

• For more information and to send a nomination, go to:

2024 Board of Directors Election

2024 Marketing Committee Chair Election

2024 Technical Committee Chair Election

• Please submit nomination statements by 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on May 13th, 2024.
• The electronic ballot will open for voting to Principal Member companies on May 20th, 2024.
• The election results will be announced at the Annual Meeting and to the general membership via email.
• If you have any questions, please send an email to krocha@broadband-forum.org

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• 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 March April Newsletter

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• 2024 Spring Meeting - Closing Plenary slides here. 

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• Click here to check Straw and Final Ballots open now. 

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.

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

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• Call for speakers is now OPEN for the 'Smart Home and IoT' Town Hall Innovation Series Session, Summer 2024 (June 17 Incheon, South Korea) Learn more

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2024 Spring Meeting - Closing Plenary slides are available to Members here.

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On Monday, March 4 during the 2024 Spring Meeting
We addressed the topic of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. 

2024 Broadband Forum Meetings:

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• & Annual Meeting: June 17-20 Incheon, South Korea (Hotel reservation link now available)

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• Fall:November 18-21 (Americas)

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UPCOMING BASe Webinars for 2024

May 7th - Future of the Connected Building

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• Operator Cloud and Service Delivery - Metro Edge Compute Roundtable
• Connected User – Is a Service Provider “App Store” deliverable?
• Requirements for a Multi-Service Fiber Access PON
• When to Deploy a virtualized and Disaggregated SDN Network 
• Fiber Access State of Play

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

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