2026 Spring Town Hall Innovation Series Session
The next Town Hall Innovation Series will take place on Tuesday, March 24 during the 2026 Spring Meeting in Melbourne, Australia
Session Topic: Open Access/Wholesale Delivery and Retail Service Providers Needs - Advancements and Future Requirements
When? 8:30AM-12:30PM AEDT (TBC), Tuesday, March 24
Where? Melbourne, Australia
For more information about the Spring Members Meeting please see: 2026 Spring Meeting
The Town Hall Innovation Series host Strategic themed discussions for each face-to-face meeting that:
HIGHLIGHT INDUSTRY TRENDS
DIRECTLY IMPACTS OR INFLUENCES FUTURE BBF WORK
The topic is Open Access/Wholesale Delivery and Retail Service Providers Needs, more specifically:
Improving visibility and measuring performance / quality of experience across both the layer 2 and layer 3 networks
Opportunities to differentiate of services from the Wholesale provider, to the retail service provider all the way to the subscribers applications
Ensuring the security and control of every peering point within an open access network environment
Meeting both regulatory and subscriber needs
The impact of the network architecture from Data Center, AI/ML Cloud and Metro Edge network architectures
Understanding requirements for standardised B2B systems across the service supply chain
Agenda:
Time | Presentation Title | Speaker |
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08:30 | Introduction | Mauro Tilocca, Town Hall Chair |
| Edge Computing |
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08:35 | Reframing Open Access Wholesale Use Cases: From the Last Mile to the Metro Edge | Ben Pang-Chen Liu, Researcher - Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories |
08:55 | Broadband L2 Wholesale Access and Edge Networking | Fabrizio Guidotti, Chief Solution Officer - OutSys |
09:15 | Telco Edge Cloud (TEC) under a Wholesale Service Provider perspective | Mauro Tilocca, Senior Standards Expert, Fixed Access Engineering and Innovation - FiberCop |
09:25 | Collective Q&A |
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09:35 | Enablers of Wholesale Services in Context of BBF Frameworks | Thomas Haag, Senior Network Architect - Deutsche Telekom |
10:05 | Coffee Break |
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10:30 | Centralised Router Database | Lorraine Tabet-Curtis, Executive Manager, Value Propositions and Product Enablement - nbn |
11:00 | From Fragmented Operations to Shared Execution: Rethinking Open Access Broadband Delivery | Pius Opeitum, Founder - Centro Access |
11:30 | E2E performance visibility for Wholesale Access Providers - In-band Network Telemetry | Ingrid Barton, Executive Principle Strategic Architecture - nbn Thedin Guruge, Senior Architect - nbn |
Questions? Reach out to this@broadband-forum.org