1. BBF USP Platform for New Services
HGI Venice Symposium
Tuesday March 8, 2016
William Lupton, Broadband Forum

2. Broadband 20/20 Vision
Enable new markets and profitable revenue growth by leveraging new technologies (NFV, SDN, Ultra-Fast access, IoT, 4/5G):
Ultra-fast wireline infrastructure service
Intelligent home/small business services
Seamless wireline/wireless connectivity services
Performance-assured IP broadband services
Personalized network service
See for more information.
Each brings new stakeholder value enabled by BBF deliverables

3. Intelligent Home and Business Services
Internet
User control, simple smart-phone-like buying
Expands TR-069 to virtualized premises services
Uses experience gained in 350m installations
Platform for management of distributed compute, storage, App store, IoT, games, TV
New roles for providers, integrators
Creates new large market
Distributed “Data Center”
CO/PoP/DC
Automated Configuration Server
Ultra-Fast
Best Effort
Internet
Services
Performance - Assured Service
PON FTTdp/FTTP/FTTH Copper
Internet
Single and Multi-Tenant location
Summarized from
Residential/Business Managed Gateway
Distributed “Data Center”
Compute-Storage/Control STB/“Store”/Software/Content
Multi-Dwelling
Professional Building
IoT: Security, Safety, Health, Energy, Appliances, Water, Audio, Printers
Premises Network
UIs: Cell/Wi-Fi Tablet, Phone, TV, Laptop, Game
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4. User Services Platform (USP)
Defines standardized mechanisms for a network of controllers and agents to activate, monitor, diagnose, and control broadband network enabled services
Wide array of use cases: managed broadband services, smart home/building apps, business services, management of multi-tenant facilities
Defines a data model, architecture, security and comms protocol to transform consumer broadband networks into an intelligent platform for the development, deployment, and support of enabled apps/services
Expands TR-069 from device to service management, leveraging IoT, NFV and SDN in concert with other SDOs
Summarized from

5. BBF Organization Chart
Board of Directors
Chief Executive Officer
Service Provider Action Council
Software Advisory Group (SAG)
Advisory Board
Chaired by me Me
Dr. Strategic Marketing
Public Relations
Secretariat
Software Architect
Market Requirements Group
Steering Committee
Technical Committee
Shows the 8 new Work Areas, each of which has one or more Project Streams.
Also shows the Software Architect (me) and the Software Advisory Group (chaired by me).
And the Innovation Track (mentioned later).
Work Areas
Market Requirements
Broadband User Services
Converged Wireless-Wireline
Innovation Track
Fiber to the Distribution Point
Routing & Transport
Birds of a Feather
Fiber Access Networks
SDN and NFV
Broadband 20/20
Physical Layer Transmission
Architecture & Migration

6. SAG and Software Guidelines
BBF has created the SAG (Software Advisory Group) to enable and coordinate its software activities
SAG is defining a set of interdependent software guidelines, including processes and tools as needed, that apply to all BBF software deliverables
These guidelines will enable and encourage common approaches across BBF
Illustrates some of the ways in which SAG is enabling and coordinating software activities.
Example: YANG data models depend on BBF YANG BCPs, BBF GitHub guidelines etc.

7. Broadband User Services (BUS) Work Area
Work Areas
Physical Layer Transmission
Architecture & Migration
Fiber to the Distribution Point
Routing & Transport
Fiber Access Networks
SDN and NFV
Broadband User Services
Converged Wireless-Wireline
Mission
Technical specifications etc. for the deployment, management, and consumption of services by the broadband end user
Represents the end user perspective when incorporating into the Broadband Forum architecture
Scope
Develop and evolve TR-069 CPE WAN Management Protocol and a User Services Platform (USP) to cover existing use cases, machine-to-machine/IoT use cases, and the virtualization of broadband user services
Develop and specify new information models to broaden the range for which TR-069 and USP can be used
Develop requirements for broadband user devices and associated software
Develop test plans and training programs for Work Area protocols and requirements
Develop marketing white papers that supplement Work Area protocols and requirements
Summarized from

8. Broadband User Services (BUS) Work Area
Work Areas
Physical Layer Transmission
Architecture & Migration
Fiber to the Distribution Point
Routing & Transport
Fiber Access Networks
SDN and NFV
Broadband User Services
Converged Wireless-Wireline
Mission
Technical specifications etc. for the deployment, management, and consumption of services by the broadband end user
Represents the end user perspective when incorporating into the Broadband Forum architecture
Scope
Develop and evolve TR-069 CPE WAN Management Protocol and a User Services Platform (USP) to cover existing use cases, machine-to-machine/IoT use cases, and the virtualization of broadband user services
Develop and specify new information models to broaden the range of for which TR-069 and USP can be used
Develop requirements for broadband user devices and associated software
Develop test plans and training programs for Work Area protocols and requirements
Develop marketing white papers that supplement Work Area protocols and requirements
Develop and evolve TR-069 CPE WAN Management Protocol and a User Services Platform (USP) to cover existing use cases, machine-to-machine/IoT use cases, and the virtualization of broadband user services
Develop and specify new information models to broaden the range for which TR-069 and USP can be used
Summarized from
Develop requirements for broadband user devices and associated software
Not just the Home Gateway. The entire Home Network is in scope.

9. User Services Platform (USP) Project Stream
Work Areas
Physical Layer Transmission
Architecture & Migration
Fiber to the Distribution Point
Routing & Transport
Fiber Access Networks
SDN and NFV
Broadband User Services
Converged Wireless-Wireline
Mission
Technical specifications etc. for the deployment, management, and consumption of services by the broadband end user
Represents the end user perspective when incorporating into the Broadband Forum architecture
Scope
Develop and evolve TR-069 CPE WAN Management Protocol and a Universal Service Platform (USP) to cover existing use cases, machine-to-machine/IoT use cases, and the virtualization of broadband user services
Develop and specify new information models to broaden the range of for which TR-069 and USP can be used
Develop requirements for broadband user devices and associated software
Develop test plans and training programs for Work Area protocols and requirements
Develop marketing white papers that supplement Work Area protocols and requirements
User Services Platform (USP) Project Stream
Evolutionary development of TR-069 to address new use cases
Generalize device management to service management
Aim for direct USP support by C1 constrained devices
Well-defined TR-069 migration strategy
Retain existing concepts while learning from experience
Remove unnecessary constraints, e.g. get rid of sessions and support always-on connections
Support multiple Controllers (an ACS is a Controller) and add an access control mechanism
Define clean protocol layers, supporting multiple message transfer protocols (not too many!) and efficient on-the-wire encoding
And very importantly
Re-use existing data models (extend for service management and IoT)
Also see
See RFC 7228 (Terminology for Constrained-Node Networks) Section 3 for definitions of C0, C1 and C2 devices.

10. USP Controllers and Agents
Managed
Broadband Gateway
Network Service Provider Controller (ACS)
Smart Home Gateway
Application Service Provider Controller
Controller
Controller on Smart Phone
(on the road)
Controller on Smart Phone/Tablet
(in the home)
Agent
Proxy Service Element
USP Protocol
Internet and/or Provider Network
Home Network
Other protocol

11. Leveraging TR-069 Information Model Framework Data Model
USP leverages the power and popularity of TR-069, the CPE WAN Management Protocol, which is deployed in over 300 million devices worldwide
USP can utilize and extend the existing CWMP data model, and abstract out layers to support a wide variety of use cases – and make it extensible
Information Model Framework
Data Model
Messages and Operations
Message Encoding
Message Transfer Protocol
Security (AAPC)
Discovery, Identification, Addressing
AAPC = Authentication, Authorization, Privacy Control.

12. Importance of Service Provider Input
2015 Ovum TR-069 survey: Efficient and Automated Smart Home Rollout
111 Service Providers responded to the survey
Number of TR-069 enabled devices will exceed 350m by end of 2016
Concludes that TR-069 is key in making the efficient delivery of new services a reality
USP is BBF’s vehicle for achieving this
SP input is vital in allowing BBF to
Understand the business case for the smart home
Understand the motivation for virtualized services
Understand machine-to-machine trends
Define the requirements that will drive technical work such as USP
USP is a large project
Architecting for the next generation of device and service management
Already has significant SP input: project leaders both work for SPs
Needs more such input: ensure that we are solving the right problems in a way that will be attractive to existing and new customers
The Ovum survey report is available from

13. BBF Innovation Track What it is
A safe and kind environment to expose / discuss / stretch / socialize ideas that could be qualified at first as out of the box, innovative, embryonic
The ideas may represent a personal view (not specifically associated with a company)
The goal of this exploration space is to road-test and help mature ideas
Who?
Regular BBF attendees -> through all channels
BBF members usually not attending f2f meetings -> participation at virtual meetings
Potential BBF members -> propose ideas through BBF web site or attending open webinars
Call (fish) for Academia inputs

14. Proposal to HGI members
BBF would welcome a ‘business requirements’ Project Stream under either its market requirements track or its innovation track
As it is up to the Project Stream leader to scope the project, the focus could be on HN Business Requirements
Project stream leader could be a new participant, as there is no requirement for longevity in the BBF
There are already BBF members who would be interested in participating
The project stream will run as all other ones and get timeslots at F2F quarterly meetings, as well as possibly progress via conference calls

15. Thank You!

16. BBF Innovation Track Process
Work Area
Innovation Track
Bi-weekly “hearings”
and discussions
Face-to-face at quarterlies
Project Stream
Simple but structured input
Discussion, feedback, market analysis or survey
Validation.
BoF candidate Scheduling
Members / Non-Members
BoF
Possible Market Requirements Document
NPIF