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         <title>Broadband Forum Launches First Ever Certification Program</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[(9 Feb 2010, Paris France) - At the MPLS &amp; Ethernet World Congress today, the Broadband Forum announced its first ever certification program, as a crucial component in its drive to develop the full potential of broadband and support the smooth broadband architecture convergence around the world.The Broadband Forum has long been a globally recognized leader in driving broadband and multi-service network architecture and equipment interoperability testing. Through fifteen years of test plan development and...

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         <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:33:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Broadband Forum Delivers Global VDSL2 Test Suite</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Technical Reports 114, 115 and 138 establish VDSL2 performance and functionality requirements--boosting VDSL2 chipset interoperability 9 December 2009 - Three new Technical Reports (TRs) from the Broadband Forum are set to play major role in supporting telecom operators around the world with Very High bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line 2 (VDSL2) deployments. VDSL2 is the highest bandwidth copper based broadband option available today, and effectively supports multimedia applications including IPTV. Deployed alone or in conjunction with...

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         <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:47:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Broadband Forum Honors Frank Van der Putten Of Alcatel-Lucent </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[1 December 2009 - The Broadband Forum recognized one of its longest serving board members with a special award at the third quarter meeting in Budapest this week.Frank Van der Putten was presented with the Distinguished Fellow Award - only the fourth person to receive this honor in recognition of the major influence he has had on the direction and success of broadband development. Frank has been a member of the Broadband Forum for 13...

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         <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:43:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Continued Network And Service Optimization The Key To Continued IPTV Growth</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Broadband Forum Marketing Director Laurie Gonzalez to address TelcoTV conference November 12, 2009 at 12:30 9 November 2009 - Improving multiplay content delivery by optimizing IPTV networks, provisioning and remote management are crucial strategic objective work areas for the Broadband Forum as it moves into 2010, according to Forum Marketing Director Laurie Gonzalez, who is addressing the TelcoTV conference in Orlando, Florida, on Thursday.The Forum, whose mission is to develop the full potential broadband, completed...

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         <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:54:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Broadband Network Energy Efficiency Summit Paves The Way For Aligned Industry Advancement</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[22 September 2009, Paris &#8211; Building on current network energy efficiency efforts, expanding the promotion of broadband's dematerialization benefits, identifying standards gaps and new opportunities for future collaboration, were the key drivers behind the Broadband Forum-organized Broadband Network Energy Efficiency Summit held in conjunction with the Broadband World Forum-Europe exhibition and conference in Paris. Leading standards bodies and industry fora including ATIS, ETSI, HGI, GeSI EE-IOCG, the ITU-T and the Broadband Forum met in a...

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         <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:16:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>European Broadband Grows To 135 Million Subscribers </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Europe now accounts for 30% of global broadband and 51% of all IPTV customers 8 September 2009 &#8211; The Broadband Forum today announced the latest broadband and IPTV statistics in a press conference at Broadband World Forum-Europe. Based on data provided for the Forum by industry analysts Point Topic (GBS database at http://point-topic.com/home/gbs/), global broadband grew by 12.9 million lines in the second quarter of 2009 to reach 445 million, while IPTV growth remained strong...

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         <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Broadband the New Necessity</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Growth despite recession proves people need the benefits of broadband Broadband has become a necessity for people around the planet &#8211;despite the economic downturn. That's the message delivered in Singapore today by Broadband Forum Chief Operating Officer Robin Mersh. Mr Mersh was giving a keynote address at the giant CommunicAsia conference and exhibition in Singapore, where more than 2,000 exhibitors were gathered to discuss and debate the latest issues surrounding telecommunications and broadcast technology. &#8220;Broadband...

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         <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Western Europe Holds Spot As Largest Broadband Market With 108 Million Broadband Subscribers</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Global IPTV market up to nearly 24 million with 9.77% quarterly growth and strong activity across Eastern Europe 16 June 2009 &#8211; The Broadband Forum today announced the latest broadband and IPTV statistics, which show impressive growth in the face of the global economic downturn. Its report, prepared for the Forum by industry analysts Point Topic (GBS database at http://point-topic.com/home/gbs/), shows that global broadband grew by 16.6 million lines in the first quarter 2009 alone,...

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         <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Triple Play Triumph For Broadband Forum</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[New Technical Report to improve Quality of Service and boost customer satisfaction on IPTV networks 9 June 2009 - Quality of Service on IPTV networks, for both operators and their customers worldwide, can now be greatly improved thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of experts at the Broadband Forum. The approval and release of "Splitter Testing" Technical Report 127 (TR-127) creates &#8211; for the first time &#8211; the opportunity for network operators and...

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         <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Telecoms Operators Quick To Support &#8220;New&#8221; Broadband Forum</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Top telecommunications operators BT, Orange and Verizon have already welcomed yesterday's announcement of the union between the Broadband Forum and the IP/MPLS Forum. The news, which will see a &#8220;new&#8221; Broadband Forum emerge, was announced in Valencia, Spain, yesterday, where the two organisations came together for the first time. This consolidation in the standards and specifications community creates a Broadband Forum with more than 200 members, comprising service providers, vendors, chip manufacturers and regulatory bodies...

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         <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 09:26:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Broadband Forum Union With IP/MPLS Forum Establishes The Central Body For Next Generation Packet Network Specifications</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A powerful new worldwide organisation has been created today by the union of the Broadband Forum and the IP/MPLS Forum.&#160; These two organizations bring together the industry experts who have, until now, looked at the evolving broadband network from different ends of the network.&#160; With this union, the core and access aggregation work of the IP/MPLS Forum will seamlessly blend and strengthen the local transport and digital home management specifications of the Broadband Forum.&#160; United...

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         <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Western Europe IPTV Subscribers Top Ten Million </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[IPTV market achieves 45% year on year growth &#8211; including 10% in last quarter &#8211; despite economic downturn 25 March 2009 &#8211; The Broadband Forum today announced the latest IPTV and broadband statistics, with the Western Europe, Africa and Middle East regions showing strong IPTV growth of 45 per cent throughout 2008. The report, prepared for the Forum by industry analysts Point Topic (GBS database at http://point-topic.com/home/gbs/), showed France as the largest IPTV market in...

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         <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Energy efficiency and IPv6 migration among major topics at powerful 2009 opening for Broadband Forum in New Orleans</title>
		 <link>http://www.realwire.com/releases/energy-efficiency-and-ipv6-migration-among-major-topics-at-powerful-2009-opening-for-broadband-forum</link>
         <description><![CDATA[13 March 2009 &#8211; The Broadband Forum's first meeting for 2009 opened in New Orleans last week, as the organisation launches its 15th landmark year.&#160; Energy was high as a number of new specifications such as broadband energy management work, fibre-related developments, IPv6 migration plans and the beginnings of fixed mobile convergence efforts got underway. The meeting also incorporated the Forum's annual Board elections where five Board appointments were made.&#160; Newly elected to the Board...

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         <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:19:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Ofcom Urges Broadband Forum To Lead Specification Development For Competitive Super-Fast Broadband Networks</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Chinyelu Onwurah addresses members on the eve of major Ofcom announcement Super-fast Broadband networks &#8211; with speeds above 25 Mbps to the home &#8211; can be provided in a way that embraces competition, and the Broadband Forum has the opportunity to play a vital role in defining the specifications needed by the industry. That was the message delivered to the first quarter meeting of the Forum in New Orleans this week, by Chinyelu Onwurah, Head...

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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:52:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Faster Access, Greater Control</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Broadband Forum releases three critical new Technical Reports (February 25, 2009, London, UK)&#160; For the Broadband Forum, 2008 was an active and evolving year.&#160; With a new name (formerly DSL Forum), the expanded scope organization diligently focused on driving new specifications that empowered next generation broadband architecture development as well as defining new operations and network management tools to assist service providers in optimizing their existing DSL networks, simplifying their fiber rollouts and moving up...

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         <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:37:00 +0100</pubDate>
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