MIRRORING THE CHANGE WITH A NEW NAME - THE BROADBAND FORUM

CommunicAsia 08 – Changing network environments and new sophisticated applications such as IPTV have brought the DSL Forum to transform its work across the broadband space and leads today to the unveiling of its new name and identify – The Broadband Forum.

TR-143 approved at DSL Forum quarterly meeting in Montreal

27 March 2008– As vendors and service providers worldwide look to maximise revenues, the lack of common remote management capability across all access technologies is a major stumbling block as they look to lower management complexities, minimise truck rolls and introduce new revenue generating services.

BT, France Telecom, Telecom Italia and Telekomunikacja Polska to give Europe a stronger voice in broadband standards development

Focused on enhancing the remote management capabilities in regards to IPTV devices, the DSL Forum today announced the approval of its latest Technical Report, TR-135 Data Model for a TR-069 Enabled STB and the amendment of the industry recognized TR-069 – which is set to expedite IPTV rollouts and change the way operators manage their IPTV offering.

07 November 2007 - The opening session of this year’s Telco TV helped bring IPTV standards to the forefront, by bringing together representatives from leading industry bodies in one place for the very first time.

John Blackford, a software architect with 2Wire, a provider of broadband service delivery platforms, has been presented with a Circle of Excellence award by the DSL Forum in acknowledgement of his outstanding work in supporting the development of standards protocols for broadband deployment worldwide.