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titleWhat's Happening

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

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 March Newsletter

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

Open Ballots

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


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titleBroadband Forum Spring Newsletter

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 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.

2023 Meetings

  • Q1: 20-23 March (Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, USA)
    • Registration opening soon!
  • Q2: 5-8 June (Europe)
  • Q3: 5-8 September (Virtual)
  • Q4: 4-7 December (Asia-Pacific)
  • Learn about sponsoring a BBF meeting


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    titleOpen Broadband

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


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    titleYour Company's Broadband Forum Membership

    Membership Renewal Justification Presentation (PDF)

    Areas of Focus and Innovation (PDF)

    Check your company's membership level

    Membership privileges

    Download this logo for member use:

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    List of Current Members



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    titleSign Up a ColleagueHow We Work

    Editor's Guidelines

    Forum Organization and Committees

    Vote on and Review  Ballots

    Published  Technical Reports

    More ResourcesShare this  sign up link  to help a colleague access the Broadband Forum tools. 



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    title2023 Q1 MeetingUpcoming Meetings

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    Call for Speakers - Town Hall Innovation Series, Summer 2024

    • 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

    2024 Broadband Forum Meetings:

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    • Fall:November 18-21 (Americas)


    View the Spring Meeting Closing Plenary slides and recording here


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


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

    Thank you to our Q1 Exclusive Meeting Sponsor

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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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    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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    2023 Call for Sponsors

    Contact Rhonda Heier for more details.

    Register to attend the next BASe event
    9 February 2023: PON Interopability- Current and Future Critical Needs Webinar

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

    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

    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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    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.


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    Teleconferences

    2022 2024 Upcoming Meetings

    Subscribe to Email Lists

    Past Meetings

    Watch Broadband Forum Webinars

          

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    titleOmdia 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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    titleQuick 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


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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.

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


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    titleA Word from our Leadership Team:

    Broadband 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. Read More.

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    titleUpcoming BBF Meetings
    • Q4: December 5-8, 2022

    Sponsor a BBF meeting!

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    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






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