Summer & Annual Member Meeting 2024

When? June 17-20, 2024

Where? Grand Hyatt Incheon, South Korea

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Check out the latest agenda for the Broadband Forum’s Summer 2024 meeting in Incheon, South Korea where we will continue progressing open standards and open broadband. The following provides a flavor of some of the ongoing discussions:

Access and Transport Architecture

• Broadband Service Metrics
• Quality of Experience Delivered (QED)
• IPv6 security considerations review
• Subscriber session steering
• Disaggregated BNG

Broadband User Services

• Smart home – dedicated discussions following the Town Hall
• Wi-Fi management topics
• Continued work on App Enabled Gateway (WT-492) and discussion of next generation, smart home-like gateways

Common YANG

• Management at scale – how to deal with OLTs that have 100’s or 1000’s of ONUs and broader discussion beyond just PON.
• Network Inventory and mapping – collaboration with IETF to understand the network, from a topology and layout
• The potential of AI/automation to make changes to the network.

Fiber Access Networks

• 25GS and 50Gig High speed PONs
• Fixed Access Network Energy Power Saving Requirements, Test Plan, and Data Models

Physical Layer Transmission

• PHY-tx Architecture and updates to the requirements for Fiber-to-the-Distribution Point (FTTdp)
• MoCA Access Performance Test Plan

SDN and NFV

• Operator Cloud Central Office (CloudCO) updates and contributions
• Bulk data collection and Automated Intelligence Management (AIM) work
• New Proposal: SDN and NFV – Virtual InCloud Router Based on IPv6

Wireless Wireline Convergence

• Multi-tenant Fixed Wireless Access will continue to be an area of activity given market drivers.
• Discussion, shaping, and alignment of plans of AGF CUPS with dBNG CUPS in ATA
• IMS for 5G-RG requirements

In addition to the above Work Area discussions, the meeting will include sessions on the various Broadband Forum Open Broadband projects.

Register today for the early-bird discount. (closes Monday May 13th) A virtual/ remote meeting option is available but not advised.

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Sponsorship Opportunities

Broadband Forum offers the opportunity for member companies to sponsor our quarterly meetings, and in doing so get their brand and/or latest initiative in front of our meeting attendees – the world’s largest and most influential service providers and broadband ecosystem participants. In addition, we offer a wide variety of complementary sponsorship opportunities, ranging from sponsorship of BASe events to targeted webinars, studies, and white papers.

For a list of benefits given to meeting sponsors, click here.

For more information on other sponsorship opportunities, click here.

Of course, you can always contact us via email at info@broadband-forum.org.

Questions?

Contact Broadband Forum Meeting Manager Gabrielle Bond at gbond@amsl.com +1.510.492.4022

Tools, access, and contributions information: Contact tools@broadband-forum.org

Stay tuned for more information!