The DSL 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.
-- 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 organizational 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.
