Mission Statement:
The Physical Layer Transmission Work Area provides test plans, technical documentation, and marketing papers to enable multi-vendor interoperability in deployments for both access and in-premises networks. Work Area Director: Herman Verbueken, Nokia
Business Impact:
The focus of the PHYtx WA is to develop technical recommendations which will help service providers deploy equipment that will give a better quality of experience for their end users.
Standardized interoperability and certification, create a trusted base of equipment and services providing operators with an accelerated time to market, avoiding large investments in time and customizations. Interoperability provides invaluable intelligence as feedback to both developers and implementers of new products and services.
Scope:
- Definition of test plans for access network physical layer transmission technologies (such as VDSL2 and Gfast) and Reverse Power Feeding technologies
- Definition of test plans for in-premises network physical layer transmission technologies such as power line communications
- Creation of best practice or use cases documentation for advanced features, such as Fiber extensions, cable models.
Active Project Streams:
Project Stream | Description | PS Leaders |
|---|---|---|
Projects that don’t fit under the scope of an existing Project Stream or if they fit under the scope of more than one Project Stream, are developed under the Non-PS Assigned category. | Herman Verbueken , Nokia | |
FANCE (Fiber Access Network Copper Extensions) | Development of technical documentation for the deployment of copper transmission technologies that extend fiber networks to end-users using existing copper infrastructure at the premises. Technologies covered include but are not limited to Gfast, G.hn and MoCA. | Aleksandra Kozarev, Intel |
| Development of test plans and related technical documentation for certification and performance testing of ITU-T G.fast and its associated reverse power feeding. This work may be leveraged within certification programs operated by the Broadband Forum. | Frank Van der Putten, Nokia | |
| Development of technical documentation for comparison of in-home network devices and their co-existence. | Marcos Martinez, MaxLinear |
Physical Layer Transmission Work Area Email Lists
- phytx@broadband-forum.org: PHYtx meeting notification, agendas, discussion, etc.
- Join or Leave BBF Groups and Email Lists
- Go to your JIRA profile page to see all of your current BBF group memberships.
PHYtx Calls, Minutes, Agendas
- PHYtx Calendar
- PHYtx Meeting Reports
- All Broadband Forum Teleconference Meetings
See also:
Active Projects (login required)
Completed or Inactive Project Streams:
- These can be found on the PHYtx - Archived Project Streams and Projects page