[March 21, 2011] Broadband Forum Names Foster President Tweet Mar 21, 2011 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- The Broadband Forum announced that new President is Kevin Foster, Head of Access Platform Design at BT and four year member of the Forum Board of Directors. According to a release, he joins Tom Starr (AT&T), who continues as Chairman, Marcin Drzymala (Telekomunikacja Polska) and Andrew Malis (Verizon Communications) who continue as Vice Presidents, David Sinicrope (Ericsson) who continues as Secretary and Frank Van der Putten (Alcatel-Lucent) who continues as Treasurer. As the world's network operators, vendors and research establishments gathered for the Boston meeting, three new Technical Reports were approved: -TR-200, using EPON in the context of TR-101 -TR-115 Corrigendum 2 - VDSL functionality test plan -TR-181 Issue 2, Amendment 2 IPv6 Device Data Model for TR-069 The two new Marketing Reports were approved: -MR-244 (IPv6 tutorial) -MR-229 Next Generation Wholesale Access The annual meeting included an election for three board seats, where Starr (AT&T), Les Brown (Lantiq) and Greg Bathrick (PMC Sierra) were re-elected to the Board of Directors. Other Board members include Peter Adams (ADTRAN), Sultan Dawood (Cisco Systems), Christophe Alter (France Telecom), George Dobrowski (Huawei Technologies), Mauro Tilocca (Telecom Italia) as well as the officers already mentioned. In recognition of the valuable efforts by some of the world's leading broadband experts, awards for outstanding contributions were presented at the annual meeting, including Leadership Awards for Lynn Merrill of OPASTCO and Michel Borgne of France Telecom. Aleksandra Kozarev of Lantiq was inducted into the Circle of Excellence for her work in Metallic Transmission, while Key Contributor Awards went to Herman Verbueken (Alcatel-Lucent), Christopher Croot (BT), Yves Hertoghs (Cisco Systems), Thomas Haag (DT), Robert Frazier (Ericsson), Alan Kavanagh (Ericsson), John Blackford (PACE) and Lincoln Lavoie (UNH-IOL). "2011 is already developing into an exciting year for the Forum full of challenges and opportunities. We see IPv6 as an area of strategic importance, along with PON, Connected Home and Enterprise solutions. We are also looking to reach into new geographical areas, with educational commitments to events in India, Latin America and the Middle East," said Broadband Forum CEO Robin Mersh. The Broadband Forum will be appearing at conferences and exhibitions around the world in 2011 and in the next two months alone Forum Ambassadors will present at the IP and TV World Forum (London), Convergence India (New Delhi, India), Broadband World Forum MEA (Dubai), Carriers World Asia (Hong Kong), Mobile Backhaul Asia (Thailand), Packet Transport Networks (Spain), FTTx Summit Europe (United Kingdom) and Broadband World Forum Asia (Malaysia). Broadband Forum, a non-profit industry organization, is focused on engineering smarter and faster broadband connections. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]