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19 Broadband Forum

Table 19-1 provides a list of Broadband Forum deliverables associated with cloud computing.

Table 19-1 – Broadband Forum deliverables

Starting Target date
Title of deliverable Current status
date
TR-317, Network Enhanced Residential Gateway (NERG) Published 06/2016
TR-328, Virtual Business Gateway Published 09/2013 06/2017
TR-345, Broadband Network Gateway and Network Published 10/2016
Function Virtualization
WT-359, A Framework for Virtualization Published 10/2016
TR-384, Cloud based Central Office Architectural Published 09/2016 01/2018
Framework (CloudCO)
WT-411, Functional module Interface definitions Draft 09/2017 03/2019
WT-412, Test cases and application notes for Cloud CO Draft 05/2017 05/2018
system (collaborating with Open Broadband)
WT-413, SDN Management and Control Interfaces for Draft 09/2017 05/2018
CloudCO Network Functions
TR-416, CloudCO: Use Cases and Scenarios Published 09/2016 05/2018
• TR-317: Network Enhanced Residential Gateway. This document specifies the network enhanced
residential gateway (NERG) architecture. NERG consists in shifting some of the functionality of a
residential gateway (RG), as defined in TR-124 to the operator's network.

URI: https://www.broadband-forum.org/technical/download/TR-317.pdf
• TR-328: Virtual Business Gateway. This technical report specifies architecture and requirements for
the virtual business gateway. The virtual business gateway architecture supports the migration of
functionalities running on a business gateway to the network service provider's infrastructure to
enable network-based features and services. Such migration is expected to simplify the deployment
and management of the network and business services.

URI: https://www.broadband-forum.org/technical/download/TR-328.pdf
• TR-345: This technical report describes how virtualized network functions (VNFs) and their
supporting network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) can be integrated with these
Broadband Forum architectures. This includes scenarios where NFVI is connected directly to a TR-
101 access network and also where VNFs are deployed behind an MS-BNG as part of a service graph.
URI: https://www.broadband-forum.org/technical/download/TR-345.pdf
• TR-359: A Framework for Virtualization. This document significantly enhances the architectural
modelling of the management and control of the multi-service broadband network (MSBN). This
document combined with TR-384 provides foundational underpinning of BBF work.
URI: https://www.broadband-forum.org/technical/download/TR-359.pdf
• TR-384: Cloud-based Central Office (CloudCO) Reference Architectural Framework. This document
specifies the recasting of a central office hosting infrastructure utilizing SDN, NFV and cloud
technologies and aligned with the Forum’s Open Broadband (OB) vision. CloudCO enables
significantly faster and more efficient provisioning of new cloud-based services to provide rapid
availability of new revenue generating services. Collectively the transformational nature of the
CloudCO structure and defined functions facilitate choice, adaptability, migration/coexistence and
implementation with 'Open Source' to enable agility and a differentiation at the functional level.
URI: https://www.broadband-forum.org/technical/download/TR-384.pdf

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