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 [...]
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The Broadband Forum, formerly the DSL Forum, has today announced the induction of Joel Pennington from ClearAccess, Jaume Rius i Riu from Ericsson, Bernard Dugerdil of Freescale Semiconductor and Benjamin Hickey from Juniper, into its Ambassador rankings.
The goal of the Ambassador Programme is to promote the work of the Broadband Forum around the world and [...]
11 November 2008, Anaheim, California – The Broadband Forum, formerly the DSL Forum, has today unveiled the latest edition of its BroadbandSuite™ Release Plan at this year’s Telco TV. BroadbandSuite 3.0 provides specifications for triple-play delivered via GPON and bonded DSL over a QoS-enabled Ethernet architecture, and remote management beyond the gateway to address [...]
Europe is leading the way in terms of broadband subscriber growth for the second year running, according to the latest statistics announced by the Broadband Forum, formerly the DSL Forum, at this year’s Broadband World Forum Europe in Brussels.
Date of issue: 30th September, 2008
Contact: Louise Hatton, BCS PR, + (44) 115 948 6901, louise {at} bcspr.co(.)uk
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17 September 2008 – The future of Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC), the role of Internet Protocol (IP) v6, fibre architecture work and the successful deployment of IPTV over DSL were topics high on the agenda at the very first meeting of the Broadband Forum, formerly the DSL Forum.
Held in Stockholm, Sweden, the meeting got underway [...]
9th September 2008 – The Broadband Forum, formerly the DSL Forum, honored the outstanding work of one of its active participants, Moti Morgenstern of ECI Telecom, at the Opening Plenary of its third quarter meeting in Sweden.
Moti, a long term key contributor in the Operations and Networks Management Working Group, has been presented with the [...]
Global broadband subscribers reach 370 million
IPTV subscribers pass 15 million
Hong Kong, 14 July 2008 – The Broadband Forum, formerly the DSL Forum, has today announced the latest Broadband and IPTV statistics at this year’s Broadband World Forum Asia in Hong Kong. The report, prepared for the Broadband Forum by industry analysts Point Topic, shows [...]
TR-143 approved at DSL Forum quarterly meeting in Montreal
28 May 2008 – As service providers continually look for ways to improve quality of service, the ability to see deeper into the consumer’s home network and quickly identify problems is imperative.
To help service providers achieve this, the DSL Forum has approved Technical Report 143 (TR-143) “Network [...]
20 May 2008 – Les Humphrey, Senior Technical Advisor with BT, has been presented with the DSL Forum Circle of Excellence Award in recognition of his outstanding efforts in broadband transport improvements. His most recent efforts include his leadership in developing noise models for better provisioning of copper access networks.
Les, a member of the [...]
BT, France Telecom, Telecom Italia and Telekomunikacja Polska to give Europe a stronger voice in broadband standards development
12 March – At the annual meeting of the DSL Forum, four of Europe’s leading telecommunications network operators were elected to the DSL Forum Board of Directors.
The new members include Kevin Foster, of BT; Christophe Alter, from France [...]
