Fixed/Mobile Convergence (FMC) was the key topic that brought 3GPP and the Broadband Forum together for their first joint workshop, held February 18-19 in San Francisco. The two-day workshop was attended by 120 industry experts, who reviewed over 40 contributions focused primarily on use cases and joint requirements.

The attendees, primarily 3GPP and Broadband Forum members, also included representatives from ETSI TISPAN, ATIS and other standards bodies. The diverse group came together with a shared goal; to start the process of aligning new FMC work in each organization to best address both fixed and wireless management requirements. The two days spent together allowed the group to identify the key issues at hand and the work that needs to be done. With words of appreciation and encouragement from workshop co-chairs, Stephen Hayes of 3GPP and Dave Allan of the Broadband Forum, each organization took away work items that address both near term and long term next steps for both 3GPP and the Broadband Forum.

Through liaison communications and technical contributions into each organization, joint requirements will be shared, and another workshop is envisioned for the future after a scope and gap analysis is performed by the organizations.

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Workshop documents and presentations are at available…on line

Presentations & Papers from the Workshop:

• Beyond FMC Interworking UDC for FMC

• Proposed Use Case and Requirement based on Policy Control in FMC

• Proposed Architecture for Policy Control in FMC

• Seamless WLAN offload

• 3GPP EPC Overview

• Broadband Forum Status (Revised version)

• 3GPP-BBF Interworking - Mobility-Roaming-Nomadism (See Workshop docs for various revisions of this document – Last version)

• 3GPP-BBF Interworking - Authentication/Authorization/Accounting

• 3GPP-BBF Interworking Policy & QoS

• High level analysis of Interworking between fixed NW access and 3GPP domain

• ATIS’ Organizational Efforts on FMC

• ATIS Exploratory Group on Convergence (EGC) Report & Recommendations

• 3GPP-BBF Interworking - Use Cases for Public and Enterprise Wireline Interworking

• 3GPP-BBF Interworking - S9 Interface: Requirements and Protocol Selection Criteria

• 3GPP-BBF Interworking - Proposal for PCRF Based BPCF

• Media and Codec policies architecture with converged Next Generation Networks

• Focus on working procedures for the policy control aspect of FMC

• PCRF-BPCF Functional Split and Information Exchange

• View on FMC – Policy Control

• ETSI TISPANPolicy Management Overview

• 3GPP Work Item Description - Support for BBF Accesses Interworking

• WT-203 - Interworking between next Generation Fixed and 3gpp wireless access

• Fixed Mobile Interworking - QoS Control via S9

• Policy Interworking – How to setup QoS for a 3GPP UE in a BBF domain

• Fixed Mobile Interworking - Establishing the s9 Session

• Connectivity and Mobility Considerations

• Authenticaton Conundrum

• TISPAN Policy Management Overview

• 3GPP-BBF Architecture - Mobility aspects

• Change Request to 3GPP Technical Specification 22.278 - Addition of operational Requirements for Fixed Mobile Convergence

• Key Workshop findings

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About the Broadband Forum
The Broadband Forum mission is to develop the full potential of broadband. With the recent union with the IP/MPLS Forum, the Broadband Forum is now the central body for next generation IP network specifications. This organization, comprising around 200 members of most of the world’s leading service providers, equipment manufacturers, chip vendors and other key organizations, defines and facilitates next generation networks for local broadband access, mobile backhaul, business services, IPTV, gaming and other applications, and is poised to address further developments as they arise. The Broadband Forum’s formal BroadbandSuite™ Release Program, Technical Reports and specifications are publicly available at www.broadband-forum.org.

For further information, visit www.broadband-forum.org or contact Laurie Gonzalez (laurie@broadband-forum.org) +1-770-761-9300.