New perspectives at milestone broadband event trigger immediate actions to achieve industry goals Atlanta, Ga. June 2, 2016: The Broadband Forum today announced the conclusion of a special three-day meeting held in Atlanta and subsequent agreement of the Board of Directors, with the purpose of examining common strategies for the future of broadband and IP […]
HGI Publishes Key Specifications for Digital Home
19 April, 2016: HGI today announced the publication of three new documents that provide clear guidance to manufacturers about Service Provider requirements for Home Gateways in regards to Wi-Fi technology requirements, Wi-Fi system requirements and service support through software modularity. The new HGI specifications – which add to a substantial suite of recently published specifications […]
IoT, Home Gateway take Centre Stage in Venice
HGI’s final meeting in Venice brings together key industry alliances focused on the Smart Home and the Home Gateway 26 February 2016. HGI today announced an impressive line-up for its Venice Symposium, where leading industry alliances working on Smart Home solutions will discuss future directions of standardisation activities. The Symposium, to be held at TIM […]
SpeedCast and O3b Networks Expand Connectivity in PNG
New service to support business customers in the Lae region of Papua New Guinea St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands – 20 January 2016 – O3b Networks today announced that the company has completed an agreement with SpeedCast, a leading global network and satellite communications service provider with operations in Papua New Guinea (PNG), to provide […]
HGI to conclude its work by 2016
The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) today announced its plan to complete its current work by mid-2016 and bring the organisation to a close. In order to achieve this, HGI will accelerate and finish the important work still underway. Following the end of the organisation, the requirements documents created by HGI will remain available to the […]
Faster time to market for Ultra-Fast Broadband as Broadband Forum completes industry’s first plugfest for G.fast DPU and CPE equipment
Industry acclaims benefits of early plugfests as 14 vendors attend UNH-IOL’s interoperability event June 16, 2015, The Hague, Netherlands – Support for the implementation of the G.fast standard continues to accelerate, as the Broadband Forum has completed the industry’s first G.fast equipment plugfest, part of its ongoing program preparing for widespread G.fast certification. The event, […]