Broadband Forum Value Proposition for Connected Home

The purpose of this Broadband Forum White Paper is to outline the emerging Connected Home market and the value proposition of Broadband Forum for Service Providers and consumers.

MR-239 describes the Connected Home today and where it is evolving:

• the state of the market

• the market potential for the Connected Home services,

• value proposition of the Broadband Forum in the Connected Home,

• examples of managed the Connected Home services,

• managed devices and why they matter for deployment, and

• which standards should help efficient and profitable deployment of Connected Home services.

The Broadband Forum (BBF) is the leading industry organization developing standards for managing broadband services and associated devices. MR-239 outlines the value proposition BBF brings to Service Providers and consumers to enable the next generation family of value-added managed services for the Connected Home, such as Home Monitoring, Control, Security, Media, Health, Energy management, and others via its evolving set of recently updated Technical Report TR-069 standard enhancements, including Software Module Management, ACS Northbound Interface Requirements and future enhancements such as management of non-TR-069 Devices and others.