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What we do

The Broadband Forum’s mission is to unlock the potential for new markets and profitable revenue growth by leveraging new technologies and standards in the home, intelligent small business and multi-user infrastructure of the broadband network. The innovative use of NFV, SDN, Ultra-Fast access, IoT (Internet of Things), and open source innovation enables the delivery of exciting ultra-fast broadband services, for the connected home and business, access and converged 5G infrastructure and Cloud.

Our work enables home, business and converged broadband services, encompassing customer, wireline and wireless access and backbone networks. Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of the work in order to bring new, valuable services and insights to our member companies, and to the whole broadband community who benefit from our work.

Who we are

The Broadband Forum expertise is sourced from more than 150 manufacturers and service provider companies and has published over 200 globally adopted standards over the last 26 years, available to the entire industry. Activity levels driven by the emergence of ultra-fast connectivity, connected users, IoT, NFV/SDN, 5G and software initiatives have seen contribution levels rise rapidly with more than 1500 active participants using state of the art agile development tools.

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Member Testimonials

    The Broadband Forum is a good standards organziation for helping service providers improve the experience they provide to their customers.

    Fu Yu
    China Unicom

    The People at the Broadband Forum; great people. It's great to the collaboration. Everyone working together on a common goal.

    Paul Keator
    Sr. Engineering Manager for Broadband Services
    DISH Network

    The Broadband Forum has meant a lot to me...grow my career...learn from industry experts...and help lead.

    Martin Casey
    Distinguished Membrer Technical Staff
    Calix