Broadband Forum News – May 2025

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CEO’s note

As we approach our Summer Member Meeting and the BASe Technical Summit 2025 in Munich, I want to highlight the core principles that continue to drive the Broadband Forum’s work: collaboration, education and interoperability are the foundation for improving users’ Quality of Experience (QoE).

That’s why initiatives like our BASe workshops and live demonstrations are so important. And you can get involved in these collaborative Broadband Forum activities at next month’s Fiber Connect and ANGA COM.

Our upcoming BASe Technical Summit will also bring this collaborative spirit to life, so be sure to register your attendance and dive into the latest discussions on the future of broadband technology innovation and current industry challenges. Together, we are shaping a broadband future that works better for everyone!

Broadband Forum CEO Craig Thomas

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Broadband Forum’s upcoming Summer Member Meeting 2025 will take place in Munich, Germany, from June 23rd-26th. Register here.
Registration is now open for the BASe Summit 2025, taking place right after the BBF Summer Member meeting on June 26th-27th. Don’t miss this unique face-to-face event focused on the future of broadband technology innovation and current industry challenges. Attendance is free for service providers, journalists, and regulators – register today!
Broadband Forum leadership elections will take place during the Summer Member Meeting 2025. Nominations are now open for the Broadband Forum Board of Directors and Marketing Committee Chair. The nomination process will close on May 19th, with election voting taking place from May 26thto June 23rd. Learn more about the Board of Directors candidacy here and the Marketing Committee Chair candidacy here.
The Broadband Forum has partnered with Fiber Broadband Association for the Fiber Connect 2025 Proof of Concept program: “Light it Up to Take Fiber Further”. This year’s demonstrations will be centered on one of three BBF specifications: BBF.247 (OLT/ONT Interoperability), TR-369 (User Services Platform) and/or BBF.398 for Wi-Fi Performance. Join us at Booth POC-4 to meet with BBF certified labs and view PoC demos of our certifications. As part of Fiber Connect’s technical deep dives, The Broadband Forum will also be holding four BASe workshops on a range of topics, so be sure you don’t miss them.
The Broadband Forum Pavilion is back for Network X 2025, with a limited number of pods available exclusively for our members. Reserve your pod now to secure your space among industry frontrunners – get in touch with the Network X team.
At ANGA COM 2025, the Broadband Forum will be hosting two BASe workshops. The “State of Fiber, Telco & Cable” panel will dive into the latest fiber technologies, exploring their application and evolution to meet the needs of network operators. “Subscriber Experience Beyond Connectivity” will explore how operators can proactively ensure broadband quality to and within the premise, driving customer loyalty and satisfaction You can also hear from Broadband Forum Marketing and Communications Manager Tiffany Groves during the ‘Leading Across Generations: Women Shaping the Future of Connectivity’ panel. Learn more here.

News and updates

Broadband Forum CEO Craig Thomas spoke with ISE Magazine Editor Joe Gillard, to discuss the recent realignment of our work areas, the unique strengths of telecom providers, the big opportunity facing application providers to work with broadband service providers, and what the telecoms industry will look like in five years. You can read the full article here.
The latest Broadband Forum ‘Plugfest’, held in conjunction with LANPARK and AT&T Labs marked the first time that 50G-PON – or Higher speed (HS-PON) – were tested at the interoperability event series, and the second time for 25GS-PON. You can read the full press release featured in Telecoms Tech News here.
The interoperability of PON equipment – from terminals to optical network units (ONUs) – has been one of the most significant influences in the success story of FTTH networks and the possibilities of gigabit (and even multi-gigabit) broadband. You can read the full SCTE Broadband Journal article as Broadband Forum CEO Craig Thomas discusses the importance of industry collaboration in the future of PON here.
‘Broadband networks that deliver the applications and services that subscribers want will empower broadband service providers (BSPs) to differentiate, add value, and monetize. But first, it is important that we have a service-level understanding of QoE demand to enable us to apply more intelligence within the network,’ was the key message from Craig Thomas in a recent blog.
In a Broadband Forum blog, our Director of Membership Rhonda Heier shared the key insights from the Spring 2025 Members Meeting in Hong Kong and the importance of industry collaboration to continue to drive innovation and the shift towards services-led broadband.

What to expect at the BASe Summit 2025

The BASe Summit 2025 – incorporating the USP Summit – offers a two-day agenda of main plenary sessions, roundtables, video demonstrations, networking and social opportunities, sponsor desk-top booths and private meeting facilities.

Day 1 will explore the innovations within the broadband network, covering access technologies, the shift to services-led broadband, and the future of software-enabled networks

Day 2 will discuss the challenges in delivering in-home services, the needs of the Connected User, and the latest advancements in Broadband Forum’s flagship USP (TR-369) that are unlocking greater user experiences and service monetization for BSPs.

The event will be held alongside the Broadband Forum’s Summer 2025 Member Meeting on 26-27 June in Munich, Germany. Register today!

Upcoming events

Get involved in our newest projects!

Service Requirements: Service Types, QoE Parameters and Evaluation (WT-524): Provides new parameters and methods for BSPs to automatically measure customers’ Quality of Experience, in terms of bandwidth, latency, jitter, and packet loss.
Network Architecture: SD-526: Model aiming to conduct traffic features analysis and PON port congestion modelling with a millisecond-level model of network traffic. It will provide guidance for operators on network upgrade conditions and support experience-based network construction.
Provider Cloud: Virtual OLT Hardware Abstraction Alignment with Cloud-CO (WT-525): The project will document the analysis, resulting requirements and recommendations of individual pieces of work by Subject Matter Experts but also ensuring the end-end consistency of the report.

Our latest certifications

BFF 247 GPON ONU Products (testing services provided by approved laboratory, Lanpark)

Arcadyan: PRV33AX246B-H1-LT
TP-Link: XGB430v Pro
AVM: FRITZ!Box 5690
Zyxel: PE5301-01 Dual-Band Wireless BE7200 XGS-PON VoIP Gateway
ZTE: F6705V3.0

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