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The Broadband Forum is a global consortium of nearly 200 leading industry players covering telecommunications, equipment, computing, networking and service provider companies.
Established in 1994, originally as the ADSL Forum and later the DSL Forum, the Broadband Forum continues its drive for a global mass market for broadband, to deliver the benefits of this technology to end users around the world over existing copper telephone wire infrastructures.
In fourteen years, the Broadband Forum has moved through defining the core Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology to delivering maximum effectiveness in broadband deployment and use. In 2005, the Forum launched the BroadbandSuite™, which expanded the scope of our work to cover not only transport but network management and digital home support. The work around remote management to the home (TR-069 family of technical reports) was milestone as it was access agnostic, and is now broadly referenced by other organizations as the de-facto standard for global remote management. In 2008, we made a commitment to developing standards to incorporate alternative access technologies in support of the growing hybrid networks, and began developing work specific to fiber.
