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Open Ballots

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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 Summer Newsletter

Stay Informed with the Latest in Broadband Forum News!
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Click here to check the July edition of our monthly newsletter on our website

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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.

... Read more .

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

Q4 Virtual Meeting

29 November - 3 December
Meeting home page
Detailed agenda
Registration opening soon!
Become the Q4 Virtual Meeting Sponsor
- contact Rhonda Heier for details

NEW Open Broadband Project

Open Broadband – WWC Reference Implementation for 5G-RG (OB-5WWC)
Visit the OB-5WWC Home Page
Learn more

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Membership Renewal Justification Presentation (PDF)

Areas of Focus and Innovation (PDF)

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List of Current Members

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Forum Organization and Committees

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BBF uses Slack for chat and instant message.

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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

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

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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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Upcoming Meetings

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2024 Broadband Forum Meetings:

Fall: November 18-21 San Diego, CA, USA Image Added
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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title	2022 Membership Dues Alert	Sign Up a Colleague

Share this sign up link to help a colleague access the Broadband Forum tools. Alert! Invoices for 2022 membership dues have been emailed to the Primary, Secondary and Invoice Representatives to current Members and Observers. Please contact Rhonda Heier at rheier@broadband-forum.org if you have not received your invoice. Read the letter from John Blackford, BBF's Chairman of the Board, describing the progress BBF members have made this year: 2021 Chairman's Letter (PDF)

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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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title	Broadband Innovation Group	Chat on Slack

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!

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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title	CloudCO Demo 2021 Virtual Demo is available NOW!	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.

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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* Watch the Demo *

Highlights

Functional Overview (including Virtual Network Functions and DHCP Relay)
Network Creation and Activation
Multi-BNG Control Planes
Gaming Session Steering Use Case

Want a personalized live virtual demo?

Live Demos available until 31 Oct 2021
Please contact Tim Carey

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Teleconferences

2021 2024 Upcoming Meetings

Join Work Area Subscribe to Email Lists

Past Meetings

Watch Broadband Forum Webinars

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title	A Word from our Leadership Team:	Quick Links

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 At the Q3 meeting, BBF's Work Areas and Open Broadband projects continued to have productive and fruitful meetings with their Broadband Forum colleagues from across the industry. We were delighted to launch the Open Broadband – WWC Reference Implementation for 5G-RG (OB-5WWC) project, which will bring the full benefits of the 5G ecosystem to fixed-line services and create a reference implementation for 5G-Residential Gateways. We invite all members and non-Broadband Forum members to get involved in this work ... Read More .

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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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Become a sponsor of BASe for 2022 (PDF)

Contact: Rhonda Heier for more details

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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Updated Maintenance

Maintenance will now happen every Wednesday from 3 PM to 6 PM Pacific Time. The Atlassian tools might be unavailable during the maintenance period.

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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.

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

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