{"id":38799,"date":"2020-05-21T12:16:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T04:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=38799"},"modified":"2020-05-21T12:16:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T04:16:21","slug":"broadband-forum-makes-significant-strides-in-improving-broadband-quality-of-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2020\/05\/21\/broadband-forum-makes-significant-strides-in-improving-broadband-quality-of-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadband Forum makes significant strides in improving broadband Quality of Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Broadband Forum is making key progress on delivering improved broadband user experience with two new specifications nearing completion. Covering Quality Attenuation and IP Capacity Metrics and Measurements, the specifications will enable operators to achieve enhanced network performance by moving away from the conventional metric of capacity or \u201cspeed,\u201d in favor of real time monitoring of network performance and operation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahead of the new technical specifications \u2013 \u201cQuality Attenuation Architecture and Requirements\u201d (WT-452.1) and \u201cMaximum IP-Layer Capacity Metric, Related Metrics, and Measurements\u201d (WT-471) \u2013 Broadband Forum\u2019s Access and Transport Architecture (ATA) Work Area has released two new white papers from its Performance, Experience and Application Testing (PEAT) Project Stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0work\u00a0builds\u00a0on Broadband Forum\u2019s\u00a0Quality Experience Delivered (QED)\u00a0initiative\u00a0which looks beyond conventional measurements to improve the overall broadband experience and improve management of network latency, consistency, predictability and reliability.\u00a0These new approaches for network measurement and monitoring\u00a0drive input into service provider operations systems and will increasingly provide the data used for machine learning,\u00a0analytics, and AI\u00a0to provide nearly real time feedback into the network operations.\u00a0This will support operators in gauging\u00a0application performance,\u00a0for example,\u00a0a video call, and\u00a0ensure\u00a0networks adapt to changing application traffic loads to always deliver the best performance to the subscriber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile capacity or speed is necessary, what customers actually want is for all their applications to just work consistently well; such as video streams without glitches or buffering, video calls, remote working, or uninterrupted gaming,\u201d said Gavin Young, Head of Fixed Access Centre of Excellence – Vodafone. \u201cAs emphasis is increasingly placed on the quality of broadband, operators can no longer differentiate on capacity alone, and instead must look to also measure and manage the reliability, network responsiveness, consistency and predictability of the services offered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first white paper, \u201cMotivation for Quality Verified Broadband Services (Broadband QED)\u201d (MR-452.1), describes the motivation for Broadband Forum\u2019s work on quality-based broadband delivery with a specific focus on a measurement and analysis framework known as Quality Attenuation. This will enable a high fidelity analysis to allow operators to gain greater understanding of network performance which, in turn, can help them focus their resources in the design and operation of their networks to improve overall customer experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cMaximum IP-Layer Capacity Metric and Measurement\u201d (MR-471.1) white paper looks at Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in measuring connectivity capacity and the issues it introduces, in particular measuring connectivity at 1 gigabit\/sec and above. Up until recently, TCP was the basis for capacity testing and is used in a number of commercially available \u201cspeed tests\u201d. The white paper describes the motivation behind using User Datagram Protocol (UDP)-based IP Capacity metrics and measurement methods. According to the white paper, the new Maximum IP-Layer Capacity Metric and Method(s) of Measurement based on UDP closes the gap between actual service rates and TCP\u2019s underestimations, removing the issues noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe new metrics and measurement method can measure the new Gigabit services and beyond without the artifacts of TCP performance, such as its throughput sensitivity to packet loss, round-trip time and its flow control details,\u201d said Al Morton, Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T. \u201cIn addition, it measures other important performance metrics beyond speed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Covering Quality Attenuation and IP Capacity Metrics and Measurements, the specifications will enable operators to achieve enhanced network performance by moving away from the conventional metric of capacity or \u201cspeed,\u201d in favor of real time monitoring of network performance and operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[7066,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-38799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-broadband-forum","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}