Broadband User Services

Mission

The Broadband User Services Work Area provides the broadband industry with technical specifications, implementation guides, reference implementations, test plans, and marketing white papers for the deployment, management, and consumption of services by the broadband end user. This Work Area represents the end user perspective when incorporating into the Broadband Forum architecture.

Business Impact:

The Broadband User Services Work Area develops specifications and publications to create a new kind of the Broadband experience for the end user and provides new means for service providers and application developers to monetize the broadband user's connection. This ranges from on-demand performance assured business and entertainment services, IoT services related to energy, security, environment, etc. to user control of what can become the data center in the home and small business managed and control with zero- touch diagnostics. All of which opens up large markets and profitable business models.

Scope:

• Develop and evolve the TR-069 CPE WAN Management Protocol and a Universal Service Platform (USP) to cover existing use cases, machine-to-machine/IoT use cases, and the virtualization of broadband user services, prioritized by their potential business value
• Develop and specify new information models to broaden the range of for which TR-069 and USP can be used
• Develop requirements for broadband user devices and associated software
• Develop test plans and training programs for Work Area protocols and requirements
• Develop marketing white papers that supplement Work Area protocols and requirements