A word from Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum CEO: "As the sun sets on 2019, we find ourselves in Central America for our final quarterly meeting of what has been a successful and important year for Broadband Forum. Panama City has been the setting of our first ‘open’ meeting, representing another significant milestone in our evolution as we further open the broadband ecosystem.It seems fitting that Hungary’s capital city, Budapest, is the location for our Q1 meeting, which saw significant progress across our Work Area groups and a fruitful transition of our leadership team. In a location that combines the two cities of Buda and Pest, our members have continued to focus on the convergence of open source and open standards, virtualized and physical network functions, and fixed and mobile networks to help transform and shape the future of broadband. This meeting provided the backdrop for a wave of transition, as our annual election took place and we bid fond farewells to colleagues..." "We have been focused for a number of years on embracing the best of open source and standards development and in mid-October, we voted on amending our by-laws to transform our organization in tandem with the ever-changing broadband industry." Read more. |