LF Broadband and Broadband Forum partner to advance broadband innovation

On October 8, Linux Foundation’s LF Broadband announced that it has entered into a partnership with the Broadband Forum with the goal of accelerating broadband innovation and deployments through collaboration between industry standards and open-source technologies.

LF Broadband, which supports projects like the SEBA reference design and the VOLTHA open source project, reports that the partnership will focus on the development and adoption of modular, intelligent, efficient, disaggregated, highly automated, multi-vendor broadband networks and solutions with open interfaces. This effort will include events, marketing, standards and specifications development, software code contributions, and solutions testing.

Broadband forum publishes interoperable standards and open software and provides a community where broadband stakeholders can collaborate.

Craig Thomas, CEO of Broadband Forum, reported that the partnership comes at a time when open-source software and open standards are playing critical roles in the industry.

“This collaboration provides the perfect opportunity for decision-makers from both organizations to come together and build future broadband networks that have intelligence, interoperability, and automation built-in,” said Thomas in a press release.

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