Manuel Paul, Squad Lead Network Convergence at Deutsche Telekom and President at Broadband Forum delivered a keynote presentation highlighting the importance of personalized and context-aware services and networks that adapt to customers’ future needs.
Paul talked about the need for standardization in the industry to respond to market demands of a fast-moving technical world, advised that agility and speed should not come at the cost of quality, and vocalized the importance of deployable standards. Collaboration between Standards Development Organizations was underscored as a key factor in achieving this and striking the perfect synergy between open-source software and open standards. He also talked about Deutsche Telekom’s focus to enable a better digital life for customers, the benefits of increasingly virtualized networks and cloud-based services, as well as the role that disaggregation is playing in making this all possible.
“Reliability and great customer experience is key, and the DT brand has connotations of great customer trust,” Paul stated. “Our customer complaints have shrunk by 90% over the past ten years and we remain committed in turning our customers into our fans.”
On helping develop standards within Broadband Forum, Paul said: “It is an honor to collaborate with this esteemed community of industry leaders and experts. On behalf of Deutsche Telekom, thank you for the opportunity to play our part.”
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The Access & Transport Architecture (ATA) Work Area delivers scalable, dynamic, and flexible architectures to support highly resilient connectivity for the next-generation of responsive services and applications. ATA’s focus includes specifying frameworks and real-time tools to deliver predictive connectivity and service performance. Read the full Spring Meeting 2024 update here: https://www.broadband-forum.org/ata-rounds-off-successful-quarter-with-ipv6-security-project-and-new-open-broadband-projects-launched
The Broadband User Services Work Area aims to explore the necessary work for delivering an operator-grade smart home and improving the subscriber experience. Read the full Spring Meeting 2024 update here: https://www.broadband-forum.org/smart-home-activities-grow-in-bus-latest-updates-of-tr-181-and-tr-398-published
The work area targets to specify YANG modules that are applicable to multiple work areas, provide support to those same work areas for their specific YANG projects, and maintain YANG Best Current Practices, processes, procedures, and tools. Read the full Spring Meeting 2024 update here: https://www.broadband-forum.org/common-yangs-latest-work-shaping-the-future-of-netconf-yang-managed-access-networks
The Fiber Access Networks (FAN) Work Area specifies and maintains PON architecture and nodal requirements, PON abstraction and mobile backhaul requirements. It is also responsible for PON test suites related to PON conformance and interoperability, and compliance test plans related to XGS-PON, NG-PON2, 25GS, 50G-PON, and Physical Medium Dependent (PMD)/Transmission Convergence (TC) Layer. Lastly, it is responsible for PON YANG data model specifications. Read the full Spring Meeting 2024 update here: https://www.broadband-forum.org/fan-collaborates-with-other-work-areas-to-progress-new-standards-officially-launches-sustainability-project
The Physical Layer Transmission Work Area aims to enable multi-vendor interoperability in deployments for both access and in-premises networks. Read the full Spring Meeting 2024 update here: https://www.broadband-forum.org/phytx-work-area-starts-the-third-issue-of-tr-301-and-continues-efforts-of-the-moca-accesstm-performance-test-plan
The SDN/NFV Work Area focuses on the introduction of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) in conjunction with general purpose hardware to create the basis for cloud-based, edge, and access networks. Read the full Spring Meeting 2024 update here: https://www.broadband-forum.org/two-key-documents-on-aim-and-disaggregation-published-with-more-specifications-close-to-fruition-for-sdn-nfv
The work area aims to deliver more value with deployment options for integrated, wireline, and mobile operators and suppliers. It focuses on optimizing the Total Cost of Ownership by consolidating network, common control plane, and streamlined backend by a comprehensive, well-specified, deployed Wireless-Wireline-Convergence architecture and functions to deliver broadband services with the 5G Core. Read the full Spring Meeting 2024 update here: https://www.broadband-forum.org/wwc-continues-multi-tenant-fwa-efforts-and-phase-18-1-work-ims-for-5g-rg-and-wwc-cups-specifications-published
OB-CAS project to stimulate open innovation for the broadband industry; calls for involvement of application providers in data analytics and network automation softwareThe OB-CloudCO Application Software Development Kit (OB-CAS) project is set to create a network management application ecosystem for the broadband industry. The project will develop an open platform software environment to foster open innovation. Read the full Spring Meeting 2024 update here: https://www.broadband-forum.org/ob-cas-project-to-stimulate-open-innovation-for-the-broadband-industry-calls-for-involvement-of-application-providers-in-data-analytics-and-network-automation-software The OB-STAMP project launches - a gamechanger for network monitoringThe OB-STAMP (Open Broadband – Simple Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol) tool aims to reduce the cost and time of deploying and implementing infrastructure for measuring network latency in service providers’ networks. Read the full Spring Meeting 2024 update here: https://www.broadband-forum.org/the-ob-stamp-project-launches-a-gamechanger-for-network-monitoring OB-USP-Agent closes in on Heron release; will help ISPs roll out value-added servicesThe OB-USP-Agent (OBUSPA) project is focused on creating a reference implementation of the User Services Platform (USP) specification from an "Agent" perspective. It aims to help ISPs offer differentiated value-added services at a faster pace, allowing individual components of the network to be upgraded without the need to upgrade the whole firmware. Read the full Spring Meeting 2024 update here: https://www.broadband-forum.org/ob-usp-agent-closes-in-on-heron-release-will-help-isps-roll-out-value-added-services OB-UDPST project team collaborates with a network operator regarding large-scale rolloutThe Open Broadband-User Datagram Protocol Speed Test (OB-UDPST) project produces an open source implementation of a tool to perform IP layer capacity metrics and measurement. Read the full Spring Meeting 2024 update here: https://www.broadband-forum.org/ob-udpst-project-team-collaborates-with-a-network-operator-regarding-large-scale-rollout OB-5WWC Project Team’s 5G-RG software architecture open for commentsOpen Broadband-5WWC (OB-5WWC) is an Open Source project focused on bringing the full benefits of the 5G ecosystem to fixed-line services and offering a full end-to-end solution to operators. The aim is to create a reference implementation of the Broadband Forum specified Wireless-Wireline Convergence solution for 5G capable Residential Gateways (5G-RGs), providing shorter time-to-market for products and reduced development times and cycles. Read the full Spring Meeting 2024 update here: https://www.broadband-forum.org/ob-5wwc-project-teams-5g-rg-software-architecture-open-for-comments For more on the work of The Broadband Forum’s Work Areas, please visit the wiki here: https://wiki.broadband-forum.org/display/BBF/BBF+Work+in+Progress+-+Projects%2C+Project+Streams%2C+and+Jira+Links Upcoming BASe events
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