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BBF's Summer Newsletter

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Hosting our Summer and Annual Member 2024 Meeting, South Korea’s modern transport hub of Incheon was another revitalizing stop on our journey to a services-led broadband ecosystem.

Our brand-new position of Marketing Committee Chair and appointment of industry veteran, Bernd Hesse to the post will play an instrumental role in the communication of our standards, realignment, and strategic focus in this “Application Age”. If you are a marketing expert in the realm of software standards and open-source technology and interested in helping us solidify our direction, please contact Bernd. I would like to extend my congratulations to all of the new and re-elected Board Members and Committee Chairs.

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Special Message

Our hearts go out to our colleagues and their families who have been affected by the recent natural disasters. If there is anything your BBF community can do to support you, please don’t hesitate to reach out by contacting us at help@broadband-forum.org. You are in our thoughts.

2021 Upcoming Quarterly Meetings

Q3: August 30 – September 3
Q4: November 29- December 3

Work Area Director Appointments for 2022

Want to help drive the direction of BBF work? Consider becoming a BBF Work Area Director: Learn more

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

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	How We Work

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title	A Word from our Leadership Team:

Over the last year, the importance of reliable broadband was laid bare. During a period of unprecedented reliance of so many on dependable broadband access, the contribution of Broadband Forum members towards improving the technological ecosystem cannot be understated.

We commissioned an industry wide Connected Home survey with Omdia surveying service providers around the world and created our first virtual demo that spanned Cloud CO, OB-BAA, USP, and Closed-Loop Automation. We also introduced our first Self-Test Certification Program (USP) and achieved several Certification Program Milestones... Read More.

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Upcoming Meetings

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2024 Broadband Forum Meetings:

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Download a Meeting Attendance Business Case to help support justification of in-person attendance here.
For a customized version, contact Rhonda Heier at rheier@broadband-forum.org for assistance.
Call for Speakers OPEN: Smart Home and IoT Town Hall Innovation Series Fall 2024. Learn more

Summer: June 17-20 Incheon, South Korea
Stay Informed with the Latest in Broadband Forum News from the Summer Meeting:
Closing Plenary
Summer Newsletter

2025 Broadband Forum Meetings:

Spring: March 10 - 13 (Asia)
Summer: June 23 - 26, 2025 (Europe)
Fall: November 17 - 20, 2025 (Americas)

Help us pick a location! By becoming a Meeting Sponsor

**Learn about becoming a BBF Meeting Sponsor here**
Contact Rhonda Heier at rheier@broadband-forum.org for more information

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New! Call for BASe Speakers (PDF)

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Become a sponsor of BASe 2021 (PDF)

Become a meeting sponsor! Call for a Q3 Meeting Sponsor is open now!
Contact: Rhonda Heier for more details

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	Access and Transport Architecture (ATA)
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	Open Broadband
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And more!

The Broadband Innovation Group is an incubator for long term or disruptive topics; an exploratory space to road-test and help mature ideas that could be handed off to relevant Broadband Forum Work Areas (WAs).

See more from the Broadband Innovation Group.

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Broadband Forum Quarterly Summer Meeting Newsletter

Assigned Names and Numbers

Software Release Registry

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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.

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

UPCOMING BASe Webinars for 2024

Sept 5th - Driving Service Differentiation through Quality of Experience (QoE), App Provider Relationships and Value-Add Services

Sept 19th - Sustainability in the Broadband Home and Network

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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2021 2024 Upcoming Meetings

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title	Quick Links

Connected Home Council

Wi-Fi Performance Testing

Cloud Central Office (CloudCO)

Software Projects

User Services Platform (USP)

Wireless-Wireline Convergence: 5G

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All Active Projects

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title	Open Broadband	Give Us Feedback

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

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Editor's Guidelines

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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 currently being 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.

To determine if your company is a member of the Forum please see our Membership Listing page here.

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