Broadband Forum Award winners
MT2 CTO, Stephane Bryant, receives “The Outstanding Contributor Award” for his work on the PON interoperability - 2024 Broadband Forum in Mainz, Germany
Mainz, Germany – This March 6, 2024 at the Spring Member Meeting, the Broadband Forum has recognized the Broadband industry leaders’ outstanding work.
Every year, the organization recognizes “the exceptional professionals whose contributions have helped develop universally-adopted open broadband standards and open software as the industry transitions to intelligent, services-led networks that prioritize the user experience”- The Broadband Forum website, https://www.broadband-forum.org/news.
Stephane BRYANT, MT2 CTO has received an “Outstanding Contributor Award” this year, for his work on OLT/ONU interoperability (TR-255 #PON interoperability test plan). This award is “presented to individuals whose pivotal role has helped drive contributions, innovation, and enhancement in Broadband Forum’s work”. This is the second “Outstanding Contributor Award” that Stephane has received over the years.
It also highlights MT2’s ongoing commitment to further smoother and faster FTTx deployments.
“We hope that TR-255 will become the cornerstone of PON interoperability in the coming years. Stay tuned for more.” said Stephane BRYANT.
Since 2008, MT2 is an active member of the Broadband Forum, deeply involved into the interoperability OLT and ONU work and also into the ONU conformance testing plan.
About MT2
MT2 leads the industry in FTTH G-PON and XGS-PON network test, offering troubleshoot, monitoring deep analysis of products, and ‘single-click’ automated test suite solutions. MT2’s analyzers and OLT emulators have the unique powerful features to allow the user to simply ‘sofware-select’, and switch between GPON, XG-PON, XGS-PON or NG-PON2, all within the same single system. MT2 ensures the complicated protocols and subscriber internet access traffic complies with every spec, automatically, using a powerful and intuitive user interface, high precision and innovative design. MT2 actively contributes to the Broadband Forum activity, as a test-tool vendor, and developed its FTTH automated test suites for functionality and performance testing, covering BBF.247, TR-309 and TR-255, critical to ensure system quality and full validation of any operator’s FFTH network.
