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Meet the Broadband Forum Fockers Gaylord Focker would be proud. Unlike Ben Stiller's main character in Meet the Parents, who struggled mightily to enter future father-in-law Robert DeNiro's inner sanctum -- or "circle of trust" -- a number of industry executives on Tuesday entered the "Circle of Excellence" when the Broadband Forum awarded them for various initiatives (none of which had anything to do with a white Himalayan cat named Jinx or a basement-residing lie detector).
(Source: 123qweasd 123qweasd/YouTube) Rather, at its quarterly meeting in Chicago today, the Broadband Forum bestowed Distinguished Fellow Award on Barbara Stark of AT&T and Michael Shaffer of Nokia for their individual work on the Forum's programs. Stark -- the first woman to win the award -- has focused on broadband user services for many years, while Shaffer's award recognized his leadership on the Forum's fiber networks activities, including G-PON ONU certification, according to the Forum. In addition, the Forum recognized Joey Boyd of ADTRAN and David Minodier of Orange for their "exceptional contributions" to the organization. Boyd received a Circle of Excellence Award for his participation in the delivery of the Forum's first YANG models; Minodier's driving role behind TR-317, a specification for residential gateways used in software-defined networking and network functions virtualization, led to his award. The Forum also awarded Outstanding Contributor Awards to Nokia's Guiu Fabregas for his work on fixed mobile convergence, 5G, NFV and SDN; Ron Insler of RAD for a focus on the virtual business gateway specification; Denis Khotimsky of Verizon for contributing to the ICTP specification that supports the NG-PON2 standard; Marvell's Marcos Martinez for work on performance testing of powerline communications and the test plan for 1905.1/1a, and Marta Seda of Calix, for contributions to the ICTP and YANG specifications. The Broadband Forum also held its annual board elections at the meeting, and members voted new directors ADTRAN's Ken Ko, and Aleksandra Kozarev of Intel onto the board. Tom Starr of AT&T, Les Brown of Huawei, and Manuel Paul of Deutsche Telekom remain on the board as directors. Related posts:
— Alison Diana, Editor, UBB2020. Follow us on Twitter @UBB2020 or @alisoncdiana. |
In a flurry of activity throughout the week, Donald (DJ) LaVoy, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the US Department of Agriculture, and his team spent about $145.8 million in the non-urban or suburban areas of seven states.
Calix reported revenue of $120.19 million – up 4% – in Q4 2019, putting a bounce in the step of company president and CEO Carl Russo and a shine to Calix's ongoing transition from hardware vendor to a provider of platforms enabled by cloud, APIs and subscriber experience.
Looking to curtail e-waste and improve the bottom line, BT will require customers to return routers and set-top boxes, although subscribers will not have to pay a fee when they receive regular broadband equipment.
The industry standards organization is looking to ease operator pain from residential WiFi, while it also sees initiatives in connected home and other projects bear fruit.
Deploying DOCSIS 3.1 across its entire footprint gave Rogers Communications the ability to offer speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s,
contributing to a broadband segement that generated about 60% of the Canadian operator's $3.05 billion (US) in Q4 cable earnings.
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