Broadband Forum’s Broadband Quality Experience Delivered (Broadband QED), an initiative which looks beyond conventional measurements to improve overall broadband experience, showed significant industry momentum at Broadband World Forum (BBWF) 2019.
Introduced to Broadband Forum members by Vodafone and Predictable Network Solutions (PNSol) at the Forum’s Q4 2018 meeting, the initiative has been rapidly embraced by the membership. Over the course of nine months, the initiative has moved from concept to reality, culminating in it being highlighted in multiple conference presentations, explained in a just-published Broadband Forum marketing report, and showcased via three demonstrations from a variety of companies at BBWF, which took place in Amsterdam last month.
Broadband Forum is an open, non-profit industry organization composed of the industry’s leading broadband operators, vendors, thought leaders who are shaping the future of broadband, and observers who closely track our progress. Its work to date has been the foundation for broadband’s global proliferation and innovation. For example, the Forum’s flagship TR-069 CPE WAN Management Protocol has nearly 1 billion installations worldwide.
Broadband Forum’s projects span across 5G, connected home, cloud and access. Its working groups collaborate to define best practices for global networks, enable new revenue-generating service and content delivery, establish technology migration strategies, and engineer critical device, service and development management tools in the home and business IP networking infrastructure.
It develops multi-service broadband packet networking specifications addressing architecture, device and service management, software data models, interoperability and certification in the broadband market.
Broadband QED represents a shift in focus in the broadband services market from increasing peak speed to the reliable and consistent delivery of a high quality of experience. With the roll-out of gigabit services, capacity is no longer the limiting factor for the vast majority of applications.
End-user satisfaction now depends more on the characteristics of the broadband connection than on its speed. Broadband QED defines a way to measure these characteristics using the mathematical concept of ‘quality attenuation’ (written ‘∆Q’), which captures the potential impact of the network on any kind of application.
Broadband QED was one of a number of hot topics discussed during Broadband Forum’s standing-room-only Broadband Acceleration Seminar (BASe) Connected Home Workshop. Vodafone’s Andrea Crepaldi, senior strategy manager Fixed Access Centre of Excellence, shared the applications of and opportunities for Broadband QED in its network.
The QED initiative was also explored in depth during a presentation from Domos’ CTO Magnus Olden and a panel led by Broadband Forum’s co-director of the Broadband User Services Work Area John Blackford, as well as in a presentation on “The Future of the Connected Home” in the conference’s Connected Home Track, also led by Vodafone’s Crepaldi.
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