2022.02.07 – Broadband Forum, Wi-Fi Alliance join forces to ensure smoother path to connected device management

Broadband Forum, Wi-Fi Alliance join forces to ensure smoother path to connected device management

2022.02.07 – ComputerWeekly.com

Alliance between and global Wi-Fi adoption body designed to ensure that operators worldwide will benefit from the latest USP and TR-181 releases that enable an enhanced customer experience

Aiming to achieve a boost to the advancement of wireless communications, open standards development organisation Broadband Forum has announced it has successfully integrated the advanced capabilities of Wi-Fi Data Elements from Wi-Fi Alliance and published the next versions of its suite of standards for managed services.

The publication of the 1.2 version of User Services Platform (USP/TR-369) and 2.15 version of the widely adopted TR-181 Device Data Model is intended to ensure operators can deploy interoperable customer Wi-Fi optimisation and management services, and help reduce customer churn and increase average revenue per user (ARPU).

The new standards were developed with close collaboration among a cross-spectrum of operators, chipset manufacturers, suppliers and management application companies. The publication of the 1.2 version of USP delivers a multi-supplier, multi-application environment.

The 2.15 version of TR-181, in particular, was developed with input from members of both Wi-Fi Alliance and the Broadband Forum, with the result of enabling efficient communication combined with extensive telemetry and configuration options that are synchronised with the latest advanced features from Wi-Fi Data Elements with an increased number of Wi-Fi key performance indicators (KPIs) now available. Various Wi-Fi data model fragments are now consolidated under the 2.15 version of TR-181 Wi-Fi Data Elements interface.

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