
Open Broadband defined
Open Broadband (OB) is collaborative space for the integration and testing of new open source, standards-based and vendor provided implementations
- A place for suppliers & operators to work together on new & coexisting solutions
- Open Broadband Infrastructure (OB-I) is a common hardware & software platform for regional labs
Fulfilling industry requirements
The migration to Cloud-based, programmed, virtualized systems & co-existence with existing infrastructure provides the industry background for OB.
The goal is to fulfill these important industry requirements:
The goal is to fulfill these important industry requirements:
- The acceleration of go-to-market and go-to-production for new high quality, services
- Open Broadband is an open invitation to participate in a developer-friendly environment without undue financial, membership, proprietary or rigid technical constraints

Open Broadband provides ...
- A new platform for the integration and testing of broadband related services (e.g. CloudCO, NFV/SDN, 5G, Ultrafast, IoT)
- Alignment with open source techniques and focus on interoperability to mitigate deployment risks
- A partnership with the open source community

How OB accelerates new services
- OB builds trust and predictability, understanding of limitations, issues & calibrating likely performance in operational systems
- A realistic strategy for interop/co-existence/migration that have been viewed as a barrier to virtualization and dependent new revenue generating services
- The step-by-step DevOps related actions:
- Support for cross-platform development and testing of cloud-based solutions
- A global approach to rapid service on-boarding
- Developing reference models and test-beds for all aspects of a use case
- Integrating industry interoperable open source & commercial cloud-based broadband solutions from suppliers and service providers
- Avoidance of lock-in to proprietary solutions
Open Broadband Infrastructure
OB-I is a common hardware and software platform for an open laboratory. OB-I is a collaborative industry resource that encompasses proprietary, "open" source and standard implementations coming together to represent service provider existing and planned deployments. The discussion continues on the Open Broadband Labs page.
The Value of Open Broadband to the industry | ||
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Collaboration between Open Broadband and other industry projects | ||
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Final Word: What OB is not |
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