11 November 2009 – The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) today announced that it has signed a liaison agreement with the Broadband Forum that will lead to close collaboration by both organisations on the development of standards and specifications for broadband networks worldwide.
The comprehensive agreement is designed to enhance the already active cooperation between HGI and [...]

Broadband Forum Marketing Director Laurie Gonzalez to address TelcoTV conference November 12, 2009 at 12:30
9 November 2009 – Improving multiplay content delivery by optimizing IPTV networks, provisioning and remote management are crucial strategic objective work areas for the Broadband Forum as it moves into 2010, according to Forum Marketing Director Laurie Gonzalez, who is addressing [...]

22 September 2009, Paris – Building on current network energy efficiency efforts, expanding the promotion of broadband’s dematerialization benefits, identifying standards gaps and new opportunities for future collaboration, were the key drivers behind the Broadband Forum-organized Broadband Network Energy Efficiency Summit held in conjunction with the Broadband World Forum-Europe exhibition and conference in Paris.
Leading standards [...]

New Technical Report to improve Quality of Service and boost customer satisfaction on IPTV networks
9 June 2009 – Quality of Service on IPTV networks, for both operators and their customers worldwide, can now be greatly improved thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of experts at the Broadband Forum.
The approval and release of “Splitter [...]

A powerful new worldwide organisation has been created today by the union of the Broadband Forum and the IP/MPLS Forum. These two organizations bring together the industry experts who have, until now, looked at the evolving broadband network from different ends of the network. With this union, the core and access aggregation work [...]

Three-way cooperation between 3GPP, Femto Forum and Broadband Forum creates new standard in record time enabling operators to deploy standards-based femtocells
London, UK –7th April 2009 – The Femto Forum, 3GPP and the Broadband Forum today announced that the world’s first femtocell standard has been officially published by 3GPP, paving the way for standardised femtocells to [...]

IPTV market achieves 45% year on year growth – including 10% in last quarter – despite economic downturn
25 March 2009 – The Broadband Forum today announced the latest IPTV and broadband statistics, with the Western Europe, Africa and Middle East regions showing strong IPTV growth of 45 per cent throughout 2008. The report, prepared for [...]

The Broadband Forum’s first meeting for 2009 opened in New Orleans last week, as the organisation launches its 15th landmark year. Energy was high as a number of new specifications such as broadband energy management work, fibre-related developments, IPv6 migration plans and the beginnings of fixed mobile convergence efforts got underway.
The meeting also incorporated [...]

Chinyelu Onwurah addresses members on the eve of major Ofcom announcement
Super-fast Broadband networks – with speeds above 25 Mbps to the home – can be provided in a way that embraces competition, and the Broadband Forum has the opportunity to play a vital role in defining the specifications needed by the industry.
That was the message [...]

For the Broadband Forum, 2008 was an active and evolving year. With a new name (formerly DSL Forum), the expanded scope organization diligently focused on driving new specifications that empowered next generation broadband architecture development as well as defining new operations and network management tools to assist service providers in optimizing their existing DSL [...]