Broadband Forum released the first ever specifications for the virtual Residential Gateway, saying it has concluded work on a landmark project to bring the potential of virtualisation into the home.
The Network Enhanced Residential Gateway (TR-317) provides requirements for an end-to-end architecture, creating a flexible and agile environment. TR-317’s virtual customer premises equipment (CPE) eliminates the need to provision and attach new services directly to an
Service providers will be able to deploy new services faster and personalise end-user packages, eventually creating significant additional revenue streams, the industry group said.
‘Local services’ will be shifted from the home to the network, providing users with highly reliable and expandable virtual storage, which can be provisioned on a ‘pay-as-you-grow’ basis. The machine-to-machine (M2M) Home Automation Box will also move to the network,
Parental control per device will also be enabled, along with improved diagnosis/troubleshooting/maintenance services. Following the release of this initial document, further work to extend its capabilities, as well as new work around the Cloud Central Office (CO) project, will be carried out.
