CloudCO Demonstration 2023

The above video provides an overview of the Broadband Forum’s 2023 CloudCO (Central Office) demonstration and its importance to service operators, vendors, and, ultimately, consumers. The CloudCO approach disaggregates and virtualizes network functions, allowing service providers to efficiently and quickly respond to market demands. The inherent interoperability of the CloudCO means service providers can mix and match elements to optimize their network. Those elements can reside anywhere there is satisfactory connectivity and computing power. Led by the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab, this multi-month effort culminated in a demonstration by ten vendors at NetworkX in Paris. Demonstrations of applications included client-less secure work from home, parental controls, and virtualized OMCI (ONU Management Control Interface).

Thank you to all of the participating companies who made the 2023 Demonstration possible, particularly the premium sponsors whose financial support was critical. To hear directly from these sponsors regarding the importance of the CloudCO 2023 demonstration in moving the broadband industry forward, check out the timecodes below:

• Ciena’s Phil Fine emphasizes the open nature of the CloudCO demonstration.
• Nokia’s Tom van Caenegem talks about the importance of the CloudCO demo for bringing relevant solutions to market.
• Radisys’s Rajesh Chundury reinforces how the CloudCO demonstration reflects the shift to a software centric approach to the access and home networks, respectively.

Thank you to the Premium Sponsors, Ciena, Nokia, and Radisys, as well as all of the Participating Companies; Altice Labs, BISDN, Capgemini, Netsia,  Outsys, UfiSpace, UNH-IOL, and Zyxel Communications.