The Broadband Forum, which is best known as a standards group, today announced the first code release of its new open source project — Broadband Access Abstraction (BAA).
The project aims to facilitate the co-existence of a wide variety of software-defined access technologies within telecommunications networks. It’s bringing openness to access networks so they can interoperate.
As a freely-published, open source project, BAA specifies northbound interfaces, core components, and southbound interfaces for functions...