DSL Forum Launches Broadbandsuite™ Release 2.0

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
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Formal Release Plan focused on providing the industry with clear solution sets for broadband deployment

Atlanta — The DSL Forum [Broadband Forum] today unveiled a major new phase of work at this year’s Telco TV in Atlanta. The BroadbandSuite Release Plan – an industry toolkit for broadband advancement – represents a significant change in how the Forum issues its specifications.

Over the last fourteen years, the DSL Forum has developed approximately 150 Technical Reports (TRs) that address issues that range from interoperability to remote management of the digital home. The goal of the Forum’s new Release Plan is to clearly identify which TRs are associated with specific milestones of broadband development. The Release Plan also provides for the first time, a defined roadmap of Forum work in the pipeline–spelling out exactly what is the next stage of development.

  • Release 1.0: Internet access via ADSL or SHDSL over a QoS-enabled ATM architecture. Supports VoIP transport & VoDSL
  • Release 2.0: Triple-play access via ADSL2plus over a QoS-enabled Ethernet architecture. Full support for multicast to enable IPTV streaming

Covering the three key areas of control, access and home, each Release provides a defined set of high-level capabilities with regards to access technologies, architecture, element management/control and home device capability and management.

BroadbandSuite Release 2.0 is a solution set of the DSL Forum’s most recent work, defining the platform that effectively supports more complex applications such as IPTV streaming. See below for the TRs included in Release 2.0:

ACCESS R2.0 HOME R2.0 CONTROL R2.0
TR-101 : Ethernet-centric multicast-capable architecture TR-124 : Requirements for Broadband Residential Gateways TR-130 : xDSL EMS to NMS Requirements
TR-100 : ADSL2plus performance test plan TR-069 Amendment 1 : CPE WAN Management Protocol TR-129 : Management of Next Generation DSL
TR-067 Issue 2 : ADSL Interoperability Test Plan TR-098 Amendment 1 : Internet Gateway Model for TR-069 TR-128 : Addendum to TR-090, Model for Managing Next Generation ADSL
TR-106 Amendment 1: Data Model for TR-069 TR-122 : Requirements for VoIP Adapter TR-068 : ADSL Modem with Routing

BroadbandSuite Release 2.0

Moving to the BroadbandSuite Release Plan enables service providers to better identify best practices and provides a reference map of future developments. For vendors, this new approach creates a benchmark against which to position their solutions and accelerate time-to-market. It also provides a roadmap of new contributions and work in development, allowing the industry and other organisational bodies to see the direction in which the Forum is moving.

BroadbandSuite Release 3.0 is tentatively scheduled for completion and release third quarter 2008.

  • Release 3.0: Triple-play access via VDSL2 & GPON over a QoS-enabled Ethernet architecture. Full support for multicast to enable IPTV streaming, data model and integrated remote management of Set-Top Box, performance monitoring & diagnostics, and more.

George Dobrowski, President and Chairman of the DSL Forum, explains: “Structuring our work into Release Plans will provide the industry with a clearer and more concise blueprint on which to base their broadband developments. BroadbandSuite Release 2.0 sets a critical bar for the successful deployment and uptake of IPTV.

“With worldwide broadband subscribers figures reaching 313 million and the number of people using IPTV services rising by 179 per cent in the last 12 months to 30 June, our work has never been more relevant; what we have outlined today is designed to support and enhance this growth.

“Packaging existing TRs in this way and highlighting the work in our pipeline, we hope will also help provide greater transparency of the Forum’s work, while establishing a new common language and platform from which the industry can work more effectively,” adds George.