2023 Membership Renewal

• Invoices for your company's 2023 membership have been sent.
• If you are the Primary Representative to BBF for your company and you have not received the invoice, please contact us at info@broadband-forum.org. 
• Read the 2023 Chairman's letter here.

Board of Directors Elections

• Nominations now open! Learn more
• 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

2023 Upcoming Meetings

• Q1: 20-23 March (Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, USA)
• Q2: 5-8 June (Europe)
• Q3: 5-8 September (Virtual)
• Q4: 4-7 December (Asia-Pacific)

**How to become a BBF Sponsor**

Changes to BBF Bylaws

• Vote Now:
  2022 Broadband Forum Official Bylaws Amendment

2022 Q3 Meeting - Antwerp, Belgium

• September 13-16, 2022
• September 5, 2022 - Meeting Registration & Contribution Deadline
• View the Detailed Agenda
• REGISTER NOW!

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Work Area Director nominations are now open!

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

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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Registration is now open for UFBB BASe 2022
The broadband technologist’s technical event - happening in-person 
Den Haag, the Netherlands
Sept. 7-9!

Learn More

Join us in Addison, Texas for the Q1 2023 Meeting!

View the Detailed Agenda

Thank you to our Q1 Exclusive Meeting Sponsor

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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!

Broadband Forum Quarterly Newsletter

Assigned Names and Numbers

Software Release Registry

Just a week before we came together for the Q4 meeting in Kona, Hawaii, the Mauna Loa volcano erupted for the first time in nearly four decades. The last time an eruption occurred was in 1984. Back then, only eight percent of households owned a computer and 99 percent of the US population was not connected to the Internet. Fast forward to 2022 and the development of open standards and the enablement of smarter and faster broadband networks has changed the face of the earth.

Despite the natural disaster on our doorstep and with Hawaii being one of the most isolated places on Earth (nearly 2,500 miles from mainland US) our members still gathered for the final meeting of the year. Read More.

Broadband networks have faced a rapid and unprecedented demand in recent years, and the attention has shifted to focusing on greater levels of Quality of Service and Quality of Experience rather than just high speed. This mirrors the quality and attentiveness from our members into each project and work, with the end-user at the heart of everything we do.Forum members converged on Antwerp, Belgium, getting together again for our first face-to-face quarterly meeting since March 2020. Presentations and meetings to shape the future of broadband provided endless opportunities to export and import innovative ideas and projects.

We would like to extend a special thanks to Nokia for sponsoring this meeting, as well as putting together an excellent social and networking event.

Last year, Belgium’s Federal Council of Ministers announced its national broadband plan, which aims to eliminate the remaining white areas where high speed services are unavailable and roll-out new broadband technologies. It has been great to see massive amounts of work ongoing and many projects proceeding to Straw and Final Ballot. Read More.

• TR-484: Access Network Abstraction
• MR-522: Mobile-transport network slice instance Management Interfaces (MMI)-Overview
• MR-436: Automated Intelligent Management
• TR-521: 5G Transport Networks
• TR-522: Mobile-transport network slice instance Management Interfaces
• TR-451: vOMCI Interface Specification
• TR-419 Issue 2: Fiber Access Extension over Existing Copper Infrastructure
• TR-355 Amendment 4: YANG Modules for FTTdp Management
• TR-280 Issue 2: ITU-T PON in the Context of TR-178
• TR-383 Amendment 5: Common YANG Modules for Access Networks
• TR-456 Issue 2: AGF Functional Requirements
• MR-452.2: Use of ΔQ to Manage Customer SLA
• TR-470 Issue 2: 5G Wireless Wireline Convergence Architecture

More: BBF Technical Reports

• Q4: December 5-8, 2022

Sponsor a BBF meeting!

Broadband Forum's Open Broadband initiative brings open source and open standards together, paving the way to dramatically change our industry and bring the full promise of broadband to fruition. The combination of Broadband Forum’s Open Broadband, Open Broadband Labs, and CloudCo initiatives are providing an industry sandbox to accelerate multi-vendor innovation and incubation in areas like 5G, network slicing, and wireless-wireline convergence. Read more: Testing and Software

Open Broadband projects include:

• 5G-RG
• Broadband Access Abstraction
• Multiple Access Points
• USP-Agent
• Speed Test