Building on Standards

Future-Net 2010Andrew G. Malis

Vice President

Broadband Forum

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We are the United Broadband Forum

The Broadband Forum is the central organization driving broadband wireline solutions and empowering converged packet networks worldwide to better meet the needs of vendors, service providers and their customers.

We develop multi-service broadband packet networking specifications addressing interoperability, architecture and management. Our work enables home, business and converged broadband services, encompassing customer,

access and backbone networks.

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Forum Membership

197 members (December 2009)

Active Service Provider Action Council

Committed to developing real world solutions for today’s broadband service providers’ requirements– Release Program

– Strong service provider leadership

Regional Membership

Australia/New Zealand

Asia

Europe

Middle East/Africa

Americas

Industry Segment Breakdown

Service Providers

Vendors

Consultants

Organizations

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Broadband Forum Service Provider Members

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BBF Strategic Objectives

Facilitate broadband convergence through shared architecture, responsive management and common interconnection standards

Stimulate MPLS use in Mobile Backhaul deployments

Define common CPE specifications for all online devices for better provisioning and maintenance

Develop tools to advance VDSL2 and PON interoperability

Empower global energy reduction measures by developing common broadband energy efficiency tests

Ensure IPv4 to IPv6 migration success

Establish common quality standards and measures for DSL and hybrid networks

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So How Can the Broadband Forum Help?

Provide the specifications that optimize the network, streamline and improve management of the digital home or office and simplify the broadband convergence evolution.

Develop industry standards, provide technical reports, offer white papers and tutorials to empower the expedition of RFPs, simplify installations and improve the quality of experience that can be offered.

The following section will take you through our current scope of work, technical reports of note, and show you what is in the pipeline for 2010 and beyond

Broadband Forum Scope of Work

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Broadband Forum Scope

PARTNER

APPLICATION

FUNCTION

PARTNER

CONTROL

FUNCTION

IDENTITY

BILLING

OSSTR-126 IPTV

Quality of Experience

TR-176 DSL

Profiles for IPTV

Quality of Experience

TR-069 (CWMP)

Identity, Accounting and Policy

Operations and Network Management

DSL Quality Management

TR-069 ACS

Management

CWMP

TR-069

Edge Aggregation

Content Network

Vo

D

TV

Multi-Service Core Access

Mobile Network

BS

C

RN

C

SG

W

P2P E-FTTx

GPON

EPON

DSL

Multi Service Architecture & Requirements Certification, Test and Interoperability

TR-101, TR-156

Ethernet

Aggregation

Network TR-144 Multi Service Requirements

IP/MPLS

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BroadbandManagement™

BroadbandManagement™ facilitates the BroadbandNetwork™ and BroadbandUser™ domains to enable new services and assure end-user Quality of Experience.

BroadbandManagement™ is a collection of the following:

Operations & Network Management

CPE Management via CWMP (TR-069)

Identity, Accounting and Policy Management

Quality of Experience

Layer 2 Control Protocol (L2CP)

DSL Quality Management (DQM)

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BroadbandNetwork™ :Evolution of Access & Aggregation

TR-25 TR-59 TR-101 WT-145TR-156

2003 20061999 2009+2008

Internet

BAS

Internet& QoS

BRASVideo BNG

BNG

Internet& QoS

IPTVVOIP

Internet& QoS

IPTVVOIP Other

NG Video BNG ?

NG-BNG ?

/Distributed AN

ATM Aggregation

ADSL

Ethernet Aggregation

VDSL,VDSL2, ADSL2+

MPLS or Carrier Ethernet Aggregation

PON, FTTx, ETTx

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BroadbandNetwork™

Edge Aggregation

VoD

Content Network

TV SIP

Core Network

IP / MPLS

Multi-Service Core Access

End-to-End Architecture– TR 144 Multi Service Requirements, WT-145 Architecture

History: TR-058 Requirements, TR-059 (ATM), TR-101 (Ethernet)

IPv6 Enabled (WT-177,WT-187,WT-242)

MPLS in Carrier Ethernet (WT-224)

MPLS in Mobile Backhaul (WT-221/222)

Mobile Network

BSC RNC SGW

P2P E-FTTx

GPON

EPON

DSL

Multi Service Architecture & Requirements Certification, Test and Interoperability

Aggregation

Network

Ethernet/MPLS

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BroadbandUser™ TR-069Remote Management Framework

Connected HomeData, Voice, Video, Energy

IP STB

Auto-

Configuration

Server (ACS)

Storage

Residential Gateway

TR-069 CPE WAN Management Protocol

TR-131, WT-132: ACS Northbound

Interface

TR-142 TR-069 Framework for

GPON

TR-143: Throughput Performance Testing

PC

VoIP

Voice ATA

OSS / BSS

Call

CenterPolicy

TR-135: STB

TR-106: Common Data Model Template

TR-140: Storage

TR-104: VoIP

TR-064, TR-133: LAN-Side CPE Mgmt

TR-122: Voice ATA

TR-196: Femto CellFemto

Cell

TR-98 Internet Gateway Device (IGD)

TR-068, TR-124 RG

TR-111: NAT Traversal

PD-174: Proxy Mgmt

Energy Management

Application ServerSmart Meter + IHD + Energy devices

Utilities Data

Center

AMI Network

Data Network

HPNA

MoCA

G.hn

Ethernet Wi-Fi

HomePlug ZigBee

Z-Wave

LON

Flexnet

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Energy Efficiency Work

Always available xDSL replacing “always on”– TR-202 Guidelines for ADSL2plus Low Power Mode

EU Broadband Code of Conduct – Broadband Forum inputs regarding methods/measurement

recommendations

– A catalyst for change

Early stage development of EE test suite– WT-189: Energy Efficiency Test Plan: Network Equipment

– WT-190: Energy Efficiency Test Plan: End-user Equipment

Home Environment Focus– PD-174 Cascaded energy management enhancements to

TR-069 emerge

– WT-124 issue 2, which will include new EE requirements for Residential Gateways

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New GPON Interoperability Working Group

History- FSAN and the Broadband Forum are both focused on fiber advancement

A workshop was held with FSAN, ITU-T and BBF on GPON interoperability, which was a success– Great attendance (50+)

– Confirmation that GPON standards conformance is what’s needed

– Agreement to jointly develop test plans addressing both interoperability and TR-156, and OMCI Implementer’s Guide compliance

– Agreement that FSAN and the Broadband Forum working together will bring together the right subject matter experts to move GPON conformance forward

Broadband Forum and FSAN created a joint working group which will meet at each Broadband Forum meeting– This group will develop the test suite

– FSAN test events will now be open to Broadband Forum members

New! Broadband Forum Certification Program

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Strong 15+ years Testing and Interop History

The Broadband Forum has long been a globally recognized leader in driving broadband and multi-service network architecture and equipment interoperability testing.

Through 15+ years of test plan development and interoperability test events, the Forum has helped the industry-

– Establish common standards

– Reduce the burden of service provider testing and

– Expedite network deployments around the world.

To advance the goal of faster and more cost effective service rollouts, the Broadband Forum is launching a groundbreaking certification program designed to verify adherence to critical IP/MPLS, broadband and digital home/business specifications.

These newly released as well as future certifications offered through the Broadband Forum Certification Program are driven by market requirements.

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Broadband Forum Certification Program Benefits

Overall the Broadband Forum Certification

Program provides:

– Assurance to service providers of products’

conformance to the Broadband Forum's globally

recognized and adopted technology standards

– Cost savings to both equipment vendors and

service providers by offering a single globally

adopted, industry-approved certification process

that significantly reduces testing time and

resources

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We begin with MPLS Certification Track

Why MPLS?

First of its kind- there is no other comprehensive certification program offered today for global standards based MPLS

MPLS is a widely deployed technology in every Service Provider network around the globe and continues to evolve from the core to the edge to the access

The MPLS Certifications provide comprehensive testing that verifies conformance to architectures and protocols required to implement MPLS

The Broadband Forum works very closely with other standards development organizations where complementary work is being developed; i.e. IETF, IEEE, ITU-T and MEF, thus ensuring collaboration and industry alignment

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What is the value to service providers?

To the Service Provider Community– Streamlines the selection process

Helping service providers identify and eliminate non-compliant devices quickly it allows service providers to come to a short list on an RFP.

– Reduces SP testing responsibility and expense Offers a standardized element of RFPs

– Reduces time to market of new services Improving Return On Investment (ROI)

– The MPLS Certifications are based on international standards aligned with architectures and protocols that reflect real world network requirements

– Provides assurance of protocol compliance allowing service providers to dedicate resources to address their specific requirements

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How do vendors benefit?

To the Vendor Community

– Test once and reuse results

Shortens test cycles & saves testing resources/expense

– Provides ways to establish a strong global market

position

– Presents a strong quality indication for end

customers

– Offers clear and carefully written test cases;

better specifications, more efficient development

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MPLS Certification Options

Three configuration approach for MPLS Certification includes:

– Circuit Emulation Services (Time Division Multiplexing)The Abstract Test Suite for TDM Services over MPLS describes test procedures based on the requirements for encapsulating TDM signals over MPLS networks and distributing timing using pseudo-wires over a MPLS network. Test cases in this specification are defined for T1, E1, T3 and E3 services.

The test suite TDMoMPLS (BBF.248) is approved and publicly available

Enrollment is now open to all Broadband Forum member companies

– ATMThe Abstract Test Suite for ATM over MPLS describes test procedures based on requirements for encapsulating Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) over MPLS networks.

ATMoMPLS test suite is in development, and currently includes more than 50 test cases

Certification to be available shortly after test suite is completed and approved

– IP & EthernetComing soon!

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Broadband Forum Certified

For a full list of the product from each company

above that has been certified visit

http://www.iometrix.com/site/index.php?option=com_

content&task=view&id=234&Itemid=178

We don’t work alone

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Current Liaison/Collaboration of BBF

3GPP (3rd Gen Partnership Project)

3GPP2

Alliance for Telecommunications industry Solutions (ATIS)

Broadband Services Forum (BSF)

Consumer Electronics Assoc. (CEA)

Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)

Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)

European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)

Femto Forum

Home Gateway Initiative (HGI)

HomeGrid Forum

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T), multiple SGs

Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF)

NGMN Alliance: Next Gen Mobile Network Alliance

MultiService Forum (MSF)

Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)

Open IPTV Forum

TeleManagement Forum (TMF)

Universal Plug and Play Forum (UPnP)

WiMax Forum

A proliferation of standards organizations in an industry that

is consolidating and converging

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In the pipeline

2010 will be a critically important year on several

fronts with key deliverables including--

– IPv6 transition and deployments by service providers,

– MPLS in Mobile Backhaul Initiative and new certification

options,

– GPON testing and interoperability, as well as potentially

addressing in-home networking testing,

– Energy efficiency, which will pick up importance once the

industry economic conditions improve and

– Broadening the Residential Gateway/IGD/Home

Networking and end device management which is our

most referenced and utilized suite of specs by other

organizations.

Thank you for taking time to learn more about the Broadband Forum

For more information,

visit us at http://www.broadband-forum.org