The Broadband Forum is an international standards organization focused on developing specifications to facilitate broadband convergence. The document discusses the Broadband Forum's strategic objectives, including facilitating broadband convergence through common standards, defining common CPE specifications, and ensuring a successful IPv4 to IPv6 migration. It also provides an overview of the Broadband Forum's scope of work, which includes specifications related to broadband management, networks, and users.

1. Building on Standards
Future-Net 2010
Andrew G. Malis
Vice President
Broadband Forum

2. We are the United Broadband Forum
 The Broadband Forum is the central organization driving
broadband wireline solutions and empowering converged
packet networks worldwide to better meet the needs of
vendors, service providers and their customers.
 We develop multi-service broadband packet networking
specifications addressing interoperability, architecture and
management. Our work enables home, business and
converged broadband services, encompassing customer,
access and backbone networks.
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3. Forum Membership
Regional Membership Industry Segment Breakdown
Australia/New Zealand Service Providers
Asia
Vendors
Europe
Middle East/Africa Consultants
Am ericas Organizations
 197 members (December 2009)
 Active Service Provider Action Council
 Committed to developing real world solutions for
today’s broadband service providers’ requirements
– Release Program
– Strong service provider leadership
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4. Broadband Forum Service Provider
Members
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5. BBF Strategic Objectives
 Facilitate broadband convergence through shared
architecture, responsive management and common
interconnection standards
 Stimulate MPLS use in Mobile Backhaul deployments
 Define common CPE specifications for all online devices
for better provisioning and maintenance
 Develop tools to advance VDSL2 and PON
interoperability
 Empower global energy reduction measures by
developing common broadband energy efficiency tests
 Ensure IPv4 to IPv6 migration success
 Establish common quality standards and measures for
DSL and hybrid networks
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6. So How Can the Broadband Forum Help?
 Provide the specifications that optimize the network,
streamline and improve management of the digital
home or office and simplify the broadband
convergence evolution.
 Develop industry standards, provide technical
reports, offer white papers and tutorials to empower
the expedition of RFPs, simplify installations and
improve the quality of experience that can be
offered.
 The following section will take you through our
current scope of work, technical reports of note, and
show you what is in the pipeline for 2010 and
beyond
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7. Broadband Forum
Scope of Work

8. Broadband Forum Scope
PARTNER
APPLICATION
Management Quality of Experience
TR-069 (CWMP)
IDENTITY
TR-069 ACS
FUNCTION Identity, Accounting and Policy
Operations and Network Management
DSL Quality Management
BILLING
PARTNER
CONTROL TR-126 IPTV TR-176 DSL OSS
FUNCTION Quality of Experience Profiles for IPTV
CWMP
TR-069
Network TR-144 Multi Service Requirements
Multi-Service Core Edge Aggregation Access
VoD
TV
Content Network P2P E-FTTx
TR-101, TR-156 GPON
IP/MPLS Ethernet
EPON
Aggregation
DSL
Mobile Network
SGW
RNC
BSC
Multi Service Architecture & Requirements Certification, Test and Interoperability
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9. BroadbandManagement™
BroadbandManagement™ facilitates the BroadbandNetwork™ and
BroadbandUser™ domains to enable new services and assure end-user
Quality of Experience.
BroadbandManagement™ is a collection of the following:
Operations & Network Management
CPE Management via CWMP (TR-069)
Identity, Accounting and Policy Management
Quality of Experience
Layer 2 Control Protocol (L2CP)
DSL Quality Management (DQM)
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10. BroadbandNetwork™ :
Evolution of Access & Aggregation
VOIP IPTV VOIP IPTV Other
Internet Internet Internet
Internet
& QoS & QoS & QoS
NG- NG
Video Video
BAS BRAS BNG BNG ?
BNG BNG ?
ATM Aggregation Ethernet Aggregation MPLS or Carrier Ethernet Aggregation
/
Distributed AN
ADSL VDSL,VDSL2, ADSL2+ PON, FTTx, ETTx
TR-25 TR-59 TR-101 TR-156 WT-145
1999 2003 2006 2008 2009+
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11. BroadbandNetwork™
 End-to-End Architecture
– TR 144 Multi Service Requirements, WT-145 Architecture
 History: TR-058 Requirements, TR-059 (ATM), TR-101 (Ethernet)
 IPv6 Enabled (WT-177,WT-187,WT-242)
 MPLS in Carrier Ethernet (WT-224)
 MPLS in Mobile Backhaul (WT-221/222)
Multi-Service Core Edge Aggregation Access
VoD TV SIP
Content Network P2P E-FTTx
Aggregation
GPON
Core Network Network
IP / MPLS
EPON
Ethernet/MPLS
Mobile Network
DSL
BSC RNC SGW
Multi Service Architecture & Requirements Certification, Test and Interoperability
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12. BroadbandUser™ TR-069
Remote Management Framework
Call Connected Home
OSS / BSS Policy Center Data, Voice, Video, Energy
TR-142
TR-131, WT-132: TR-069 Framework for
ACS Northbound GPON
Interface
TR-069 CPE WAN
Management Protocol IP STB Storage VoIP
Femto
Cell TR-196: Femto Cell
Auto- Data Network TR-135: STB
Residential Gateway Voice ATA
Configuration TR-143: Throughput TR-104: VoIP
Server (ACS) Performance Testing TR-98 Internet Gateway
TR-122: Voice ATA
Device (IGD)
TR-140: Storage
TR-111: NAT Traversal
TR-064, TR-133:
TR-068, TR-124 RG LAN-Side CPE Mgmt
PC
PD-174: Proxy Mgmt TR-106: Common Data
Model Template
HPNA G.hn HomePlug ZigBee LON
AMI Network MoCA Ethernet Wi-Fi Z-Wave Flexnet
Energy Management Utilities Data
Smart Meter + IHD + Energy devices
Application Server Center 12

13. Energy Efficiency Work
 Always available xDSL replacing “always on”
– TR-202 Guidelines for ADSL2plus Low Power Mode
 EU Broadband Code of Conduct
– Broadband Forum inputs regarding methods/measurement
recommendations
– A catalyst for change
 Early stage development of EE test suite
– WT-189: Energy Efficiency Test Plan: Network Equipment
– WT-190: Energy Efficiency Test Plan: End-user Equipment
 Home Environment Focus
– PD-174 Cascaded energy management enhancements to
TR-069 emerge
– WT-124 issue 2, which will include new EE requirements for
Residential Gateways
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14. New GPON Interoperability Working Group
 History- FSAN and the Broadband Forum are both focused on fiber
advancement
 A workshop was held with FSAN, ITU-T and BBF on GPON
interoperability, which was a success
– Great attendance (50+)
– Confirmation that GPON standards conformance is what’s needed
– Agreement to jointly develop test plans addressing both
interoperability and TR-156, and OMCI Implementer’s Guide
compliance
– Agreement that FSAN and the Broadband Forum working together will
bring together the right subject matter experts to move GPON
conformance forward
 Broadband Forum and FSAN created a joint working group which
will meet at each Broadband Forum meeting
– This group will develop the test suite
– FSAN test events will now be open to Broadband Forum members
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15. New! Broadband Forum
Certification Program

16. Strong 15+ years Testing and Interop History
 The Broadband Forum has long been a globally recognized
leader in driving broadband and multi-service network
architecture and equipment interoperability testing.
 Through 15+ years of test plan development and interoperability
test events, the Forum has helped the industry-
– Establish common standards
– Reduce the burden of service provider testing and
– Expedite network deployments around the world.
 To advance the goal of faster and more cost effective service
rollouts, the Broadband Forum is launching a groundbreaking
certification program designed to verify adherence to critical
IP/MPLS, broadband and digital home/business specifications.
 These newly released as well as future certifications offered
through the Broadband Forum Certification Program are
driven by market requirements.
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17. Broadband Forum
Certification Program Benefits
 Overall the Broadband Forum Certification
Program provides:
– Assurance to service providers of products’
conformance to the Broadband Forum's globally
recognized and adopted technology standards
– Cost savings to both equipment vendors and
service providers by offering a single globally
adopted, industry-approved certification process
that significantly reduces testing time and
resources
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18. We begin with MPLS Certification Track
Why MPLS?
 First of its kind- there is no other comprehensive certification
program offered today for global standards based MPLS
 MPLS is a widely deployed technology in every Service
Provider network around the globe and continues to evolve
from the core to the edge to the access
 The MPLS Certifications provide comprehensive testing that
verifies conformance to architectures and protocols required to
implement MPLS
 The Broadband Forum works very closely with other standards
development organizations where complementary work is being
developed; i.e. IETF, IEEE, ITU-T and MEF, thus ensuring
collaboration and industry alignment
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19. What is the value to service providers?
 To the Service Provider Community
– Streamlines the selection process
 Helping service providers identify and eliminate non-compliant
devices quickly it allows service providers to come to a short
list on an RFP.
– Reduces SP testing responsibility and expense
 Offers a standardized element of RFPs
– Reduces time to market of new services
 Improving Return On Investment (ROI)
– The MPLS Certifications are based on international
standards aligned with architectures and protocols that
reflect real world network requirements
– Provides assurance of protocol compliance allowing service
providers to dedicate resources to address their specific
requirements
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20. How do vendors benefit?
 To the Vendor Community
– Test once and reuse results
 Shortens test cycles & saves testing resources/expense
– Provides ways to establish a strong global market
position
– Presents a strong quality indication for end
customers
– Offers clear and carefully written test cases;
better specifications, more efficient development
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21. MPLS Certification Options
 Three configuration approach for MPLS Certification includes:
– Circuit Emulation Services (Time Division Multiplexing)
The Abstract Test Suite for TDM Services over MPLS describes test
procedures based on the requirements for encapsulating TDM signals
over MPLS networks and distributing timing using pseudo-wires over
a MPLS network. Test cases in this specification are defined for T1,
E1, T3 and E3 services.
 The test suite TDMoMPLS (BBF.248) is approved and publicly available
 Enrollment is now open to all Broadband Forum member companies
– ATM
The Abstract Test Suite for ATM over MPLS describes test
procedures based on requirements for encapsulating Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM) over MPLS networks.
 ATMoMPLS test suite is in development, and currently includes more than
50 test cases
 Certification to be available shortly after test suite is completed and
approved
– IP & Ethernet
Coming soon!
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22. Broadband Forum Certified
 For a full list of the product from each company
above that has been certified visit
http://www.iometrix.com/site/index.php?option=com_
content&task=view&id=234&Itemid=178
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23. We don’t work alone

24. Current Liaison/Collaboration of BBF
A proliferation of standards organizations in an industry that
is consolidating and converging
 3GPP (3rd Gen Partnership Project)
 3GPP2  International Telecommunication
 Alliance for Telecommunications industry Union (ITU-T), multiple SGs
Solutions (ATIS)  Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF)
 Broadband Services Forum (BSF)  NGMN Alliance: Next Gen Mobile
 Consumer Electronics Assoc. (CEA) Network Alliance
 Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)  MultiService Forum (MSF)
 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)  Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)
 European Telecommunications Standards  Open IPTV Forum
Institute (ETSI)  TeleManagement Forum (TMF)
 Femto Forum  Universal Plug and Play Forum
 Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) (UPnP)
 HomeGrid Forum  WiMax Forum
 Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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25. In the pipeline
 2010 will be a critically important year on several
fronts with key deliverables including--
– IPv6 transition and deployments by service providers,
– MPLS in Mobile Backhaul Initiative and new certification
options,
– GPON testing and interoperability, as well as potentially
addressing in-home networking testing,
– Energy efficiency, which will pick up importance once the
industry economic conditions improve and
– Broadening the Residential Gateway/IGD/Home
Networking and end device management which is our
most referenced and utilized suite of specs by other
organizations.
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26. Thank you for taking time to learn more
about the Broadband Forum
For more information,
visit us at
http://www.broadband-forum.org