Broadband News

June 12, 2015, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA - TR-069, the Broadband Forum standard which has already transformed the provision of communications services in the home, is set for a new era as an industry survey conducted by Ovum showed that service providers across the world are relying on its versatility and reliability to support them in delivering IoT and M2M services. The report came out as the Forum met for its quarterly meeting in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and continued its...

DURHAM, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--During the week of May 4-8, eight companies met at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) to test their latest VDSL2 vectoring equipment and software. The series of VDSL2 Vectoring Plugfest, organized by the Broadband Forum, have enabled participants to develop interoperable and deployable solutions. This latest plugfest event focused on testing systems supporting both vectoring and multi-pair bonding, which increase the available data rate for subscribers by adding one or more additional twisted pair connections...

G.fast—the latest and fastest version of DSL—may eventually deliver a super-fast upgrade in speed to DSL users. Late last year, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) approved this new version of the digital-subscriber-line (DSL) standard for Internet access over the plain old telephone service (POTS), also known as the public switched telephone network (PSTN). POTS uses the massive installed base of unshielded twisted-pair wiring from telephone central office to the home or office.

The ITU announced December 5 that its members successfully met industry's "by the end of the year" expectations for ratifying the G.fast standard. The organization added that its ITU-T Study Group 15 is already hard at work on extensions. Recommendation ITU-T G.9701, "Fast Access to Subscriber Terminals (FAST) - Physical layer specification," will offer carriers who aren't ready to invest in fiber to the home (FTTH) a way to provide broadband access services at data rates greater than VDSL2 with...