Connected User – The Future Inside the Managed Connected Home: WiFi, FTTR, and IoT Connectivity vBASe Webinar

October 5th, 2023

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Building connectivity has become as critical as the broadband connection itself. With Wi-Fi advancements from Wi-Fi 6 to Wi-Fi 7, alternative FTTR options, and the increasing need to support 3^rd party IoT as well as broadband service provider’s own managed services. What are the new options and technologies enabling a better connected home/business subscriber experience and new managed service differentiation?

Speakers included:

CommScope – Ian Wheelock, Engineering Fellow, CTO Europe, CommScope Home Networks

Title: Combining SDP/LCM with BBF technologies to Enhance the Management of the Connected Home

Abstract: Wi-Fi, IoT and FTTR are key enablers for the Connected Home of the Future. Advances in the complexity of these technologies is leading to the requirement of more detailed management and control. There is an ever present need of grabbing more and more data to support the services running on these technologies within subscriber homes. Exciting advances in the BroadBand Forum Broadband User Service (BUS) Work Area is enabling new internal services based on User Services Platform (USP) and TR-181. Combined with other open source initiatives like the prpl Foundation LifeCycle Management (LCM) prpl Ware component, the management of sophisticated components within the connected home is now capable of being split between the typical central cloud location and the gateway itself. The ability to download management applications directly to the gateway to perform trivial tasks of validating normal operation means that there is less data being constantly streamed to the cloud, where costs for data transfer, processing and storage of data are mounting. Offloading intelligent management agents to the gateway that work in concert with the central cloud application can help reduce operational costs for the operator, while potentially providing more real time like analysis of the connected home.

Friendly Technologies – Alex Braginskii, Product Director

Title: The Future of the Connected Home: Additional Services & Single Management with Matter

Abstract: As our homes and businesses become increasingly interconnected, the orchestration of services and platforms becomes paramount for a seamless user experience. We’ll dive into the pivotal role of service orchestration, outlining how it effectively elevates revenue while cementing customer loyalty. Additionally, we’ll discuss the significance of standards and technologies that foster interoperability in connected homes.
Join us to as we dive into how ISPs can strategically harness service orchestration to deliver heightened security, match evolving customer needs, and bolster satisfaction.

Huawei Technologies – Aihua Guo, Principal Architect 

Title: AI-Powered Access and Home Services Coordination

Abstract: The significant growth of high-speed access networks in size and number of connected users using technologies such as Fiber-to-the-room (FTTR) has made it extremely important yet difficult to achieve guaranteed user experiences with traditional network management approaches. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a viable solution to facilitate closed-loop network automation in various scenarios and reduce the cost in access network operation and management. This presentation will discuss some typical use cases for access and home services and illustrate how AI is used to realize these use cases and bring real values to customers and operators.

Radisys – Eric Wulfsberg, Sr. Director of Product Management 

Title: Converged Technologies and Innovative Software-Driven Solutions to Improve the Home Experience

 Abstract: The deployment of wireless services at fiber rates using licensed and unlicensed frequencies offers providers a means to rapidly sign-up new customers while continuing to build out their 10G infrastructure—Jio Fiber and Jio AirFiber are examples of these co-existing technologies at macro scale. Open standards and disaggregated solutions can enable the convergence of wireless networks and the broadband access user and media plane. Let’s discuss how providers can leverage innovative solutions to deploy new services at rapid pace, unify device management at the customer’s premise and optimize gateways designed with open architectures, abstracting hardware from software. We’ll also elaborate on how using APIs to call data elements and functions across these different hardware platforms enables a common subscriber experience, improved efficiencies in the operation and administration of the network, and offers a means to create new cloud centric services over different access technologies.