A
global non-profit industry organization focused on engineering smarter and
faster broadband connections, the Broadband Forum, Wednesday in Amsterdam
received the Informa’s Infovision Awards as the winner of its Outstanding
Contribution to Broadband Success award.
DigitalSENSE
Business News reports that the award, conferred Wednesday night in Amsterdam
during the Broadband World Forum, was aimed at recognizing the contributions of
an organization to the development of broadband.
“It
is the Broadband Forum’s work on the TR-069 Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) based
on the Wireless Area Network (CPE WAN) Management Protocol that has been
recognized by the industry in particular.
DigitalSENews
Business News recalls that TR-069 CPE WAN Management Protocol was developed by
the Broadband Forum to ensure service providers had the tools necessary to
remotely provision and maintain all the online devices of their customer base.
Using
a TR-069 protocol-adherent Auto-configuration Server in the service provider’s
network means they can automatically detect new devices coming online, remotely
provision the device based on its data model, and maintain it throughout its
lifecycle.
To ensure that devices adhere to the TR-069 protocol, the
Broadband Forum has just launched its BBF.069 CPE Certification Program to
provide the industry with the way to verify market-ready TR-069 adherent
devices.
Established
in 1994, the Broadband Forum is well-known and referenced in the industry,
developing the necessary tools to engineer smarter and faster broadband connections
with its strong membership base of global service providers, equipment and
chipset vendors, software vendors, government organizations and test houses.
The award is also significant as it marks the first time a forum has been
recognized by the industry in this way.
Kevin
Foster, President of the Broadband Forum, said: “Robin and I are honored and
humbled to receive the award on behalf of the Broadband Forum experts who have
specified the protocol, the vendors who have implemented it, and the operators
who use it to manage over 147 million devices.”
Robin Mersh, CEO of the Broadband Forum, said: “Members of the Broadband Forum work tirelessly behind the scenes to develop and implement the standards we all need to achieve better broadband. To have achieved this recognition for our work on TR-069 is especially pleasing as we announced the first ever TR-069 certified products earlier this week.”
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