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Release paves way for telcos to provision personalised services from the cloud.
The Broadband Forum on Wednesday completed its virtual residential gateway specification, paving the way for telcos to offer virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE).
Called TR-317, it "provides CEP manufacturers with a first set of specifications to ensure interoperability between the bridged residential gateway at the customer premises and the virtual gateway hosted in the service provider’s cloud infrastructure," explained David Minodier, network architect at Orange, which led the development of TR-317.
With virtual residential gateways and CPE, an operator can provision new services for individual subscribers in the data centre, as opposed to the home hub, lowering cost and complexity for the service provider and by extension the customer.
"Enabling operator gateway services with the agility of cloud-based software and supporting some new use cases is the purpose of the Network Enhanced Residential Gateway architecture which TR-317 provides," said Broadband Forum CEO Robin Mersh.
