DSL Forum is a consortium of approximately 200 leading industry players covering telecommunications, equipment, computing, networking and service provider companies.

Our work ensures that service providers are able to rollout, as well as introduce new services quickly and effectively, using common platforms and practices that makes all they do easily scalable, and economical.

Established in 1994, the Forum continues its drive to develop the full potential of DSL to meet the broadband needs of the mass market. In eleven years, the DSL Forum has moved through defining the core Digital Subscriber Line technology to establishing advanced architecture standards, and maximizing effectiveness in deployment, reach and application support.

We have driven global standardization of ADSL, SHDSL, VDSL, ADSL2plus, and VDSL2 and more are in process. These will provide a complete portfolio of digital subscriber line technologies designed to deliver ubiquitous broadband services for a wide range of situations and applications that will continue the transformation of our day-to-day lives in an on-line world.

Best practices for auto-configuration, flow-through provisioning, equipment interoperability and other key facilitators of scaleable, global, mass-market deployment of DSL broadband, are fast-tracked by DSL Forum.

Outcomes of that work are published as Technical Reports for use throughout the global industry and are available.

Each member company contributes to the work of the Forum through the development of the technology and its effective delivery. They participate in technical and marketing working groups, sharing their knowledge, experience and expertise to create common, agreed protocols, processes and best practice recommendations for use by the industry and for standards and other related industry bodies.

This work takes place at quarterly, week-long meetings and through the continuous activity of working groups. These Forum meetings foster a sharing of knowledge and best practices between members to make DSL the world's primary choice for broadband services.

Through its marketing activities - extensive, continuous global public and industry education and media campaigns, the DSL Forum also ensures a growing international understanding of the benefits of DSL broadband.

In meeting these core objectives, the Forum continues to establish essential and proven processes for DSL broadband delivery that accelerate the affordable and faster delivery of DSL to the mass market.
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