2022.03.22 – New Broadband Forum specs allow ISPs to begin tapping 5G capabilities
New Broadband Forum specs allow ISPs to begin tapping 5G capabilities
Fierce Telecom – 2022.03.22
The Broadband Forum wrapped Phase II of its wireless-wireline convergence (WWC) effort, unveiling new specifications which will allow legacy residential wireline gateways to take advantage of certain 5G capabilities.
Its latest work builds on Phase I specifications completed in 2020 and includes two key updates: multi-access support for 5G residential gateways (5G-RGs) and multi-session enablement for fixed network residential gateways (FN-RGs).
Deutsche Telekom’s Manuel Paul, who is VP, board member and WWC Work Area Director at Broadband Forum, told Fierce that together these will allow fixed providers to begin exploiting a 5G toolkit including features like edge computing and network slicing that has hitherto either not been introduced or not made “as easily available to pure wireline core network or gateway functions to date.”
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