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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 March Newsletter

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Q3 Virtual Meeting

31 August - 4 September, 2020
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Download Closing Plenary slides (PDF)
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Work Area Director Appointments:

BBF invites representatives from Principal and Associate Member companies to submit candidacy statements - Learn more here.

Q4 Virtual Meeting

Week of 6 December 2020
Details to be announced!

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title	Sign Up a Colleague	Broadband 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.

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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

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Broadband Forum Quarterly Newsletter

Assigned Names and Numbers

Software Release Registry

Open Broadband

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

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Membership Renewal Justification Presentation (PDF)

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List of Current Members

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Editor's Guidelines

Forum Organization and Committees

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Thank you to our Spring Meeting Sponsor!

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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.

To view the agenda and speakers and download the presentations, please click HERE.

2024 Broadband Forum Meetings:

- Summer: Annual Meeting: June 17-20 Incheon, South Korea
- Fall:November 18-21 (Americas)

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

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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
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BBF uses Slack is used for BBF chat and instant message.

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Channels:

general: ask a question about BBF.
usp-questions: ask a question
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New channel: usp-questions, for questions about USP/TR-369 and have discussions on development, use cases, and implementation.
doglover: just for fun - photos encouraged
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Editor's Guidelines

Forum Organization and Committees

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Public Wiki Information

Broadband Forum Spring Newsletter

Assigned Names and Numbers

Software Release Registry

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Broadband Innovation Group

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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title	2020 Work Area Director Appointments

The following Work Areas are seeking appointments of leaders for two year terms beginning in January 2021:

BBF invites representatives from Principal and Associate Member companies to submit candidacy statements - find out more here.

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	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.

Past BASe event downloads:

• 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.

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Teleconferences

2020 2024 Upcoming Meetings

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Past Meetings

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A word from Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum CEO:

"Our Q3 meeting saw us venture into now familiar territory with a virtual backdrop for the second successive meeting. Despite the lack of face-to-face interaction, our meetings are as productive and fruitful as ever. The ease at which the meetings are being conducted over video further highlights the role that fixed broadband has played in keeping us connected throughout the recent uncertain months.

This quarter, we bid farewell and thank you to Broadband Forum President Tom Starr who was an important member of our family for more than a quarter of a Century. This transition has seen us welcome two new additions to the Board (Ding Hai of China Unicom and Mike Talbert of Verizon – welcome to them both!) and Bernd Hesse was named as the new President.

This meeting also saw the launch of a new project. The open source User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Speed Test will be a game-changer for broadband measurements and gigabit broadband..." Read more.

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Open Broadband

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

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Connected Home Council

Wi-Fi Performance Testing

Cloud Central Office (CloudCO)

Software Projects

User Services Platform (USP)

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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.

*Please note that login credentials from 2017 and earlier are not recognized on the Wiki or Broadband Forum's other Atlassian tools. Please Sign Up to create a new account or contact Broadband Forum staff with questions.

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