How is the Broadband Forum involved in equipment interoperability?
The Broadband Forum has established a series of Technical Reports that define the core testing and interoperability criteria for network and customer premises equipment. These physical layer test suites continue to be developed to address the needs of newly defined and standardized versions of DSL such as ADSL2+ and VDSL2. Currently there is also ongoing testing in the area of remote management and auto-configuration based on the industry de-facto standard, TR-069. Interoperability activities include multi-vendor ‘plugfests’ for equipment manufacturers and independent testing through a number of recognized testing laboratories (ITLs) around the world that undertake robust testing to the Broadband Forum’s test plan specifications. The primary focus of these tests is to check the ability of a product to co-exist in a multiple vendor environment and operate with other products so that network and service providers as well as end users are assured of the capability of equipment to deliver
