The Broadband Forum announced the conclusion of a special
three-day meeting held in Atlanta and subsequent agreement of the Board of
Directors, with the purpose of examining common strategies for the future of
broadband and IP networking, reports ITRealms.
The forum also aimed at developing a new operational model
and immediate actions that leverage new technology and development approaches
to serve the business requirements of the stakeholders in the broadband market.
According to official statement made available to ITRealms,
the outcome of the meeting was a course of action that included but not limited
to embrace the best of both open source and standards development and will immediately
instigate new methods for rapid delivery of innovative software and standards
for key use cases to the community of manufacturers, service providers and
open-source organizations that replace traditional Standards Development
Organization (SDO) approaches.
ITRealms further reports that to complement the above
action, the Forum will take action to significantly increase its collaboration
with key industry groups including developing open initiatives, including both
members and non-members, for the benefit of the whole broadband community.
The Forum emphasizes the work and methodology that is
bringing the most value to stakeholders, such as new value added services,
enabling the broadband smart home; a safe harbor for intellectual property,
virtualized business and residential gateways, YANG data models, interop
testing for ultra-fast networking and guidance for deployment best practices.
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