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Default | 27 January 2010

ProSyst joins the Broadband Forum

ProSyst contributes to the development of the most open and standardized Home Gateway Middleware Stack meeting BBF specs, HGI specs and OSGi REG specs as well as supporting standard protocols such as UPnP and ZigBee.

Cologne, January 29, 2010 - ProSyst Software GmbH (www.prosyst.com), an OSGi pioneer, announced today that it has become a member of the Broadband Forum (www.broadband-forum.org).

The Broadband Forum (BBF) is the central organization driving broadband wireline solutions and empowering converged packet networks worldwide to better meet the needs of vendors, service providers and their customers.
BBF develops multi-service broadband packet networking specifications addressing interoperability, architecture and management. BBF work enables home, business and converged broadband services, encompassing customer, access and backbone networks.

"Standardization and interoperability are key success factors in the connected home" said Kai Hackbarth, Evangelist at ProSyst. "There are a lot of local and proprietary solutions out there, but only a standardized approach will lead to a break-through in interoperability and the seamless delivery of services. That’s why ProSyst welcomes the liason between HGI and OSGi as well as BBF and is closely involved in helping to tie those standards together. At the same time, it allows ProSyst to be at the forefront when it comes to offering products that  are truly standard compliant.”    

The ProSyst solution includes CPE middleware as well as a remote management and provisioning system that enables broadband service providers to control and manage home gateway software by installing, updating, uninstalling as well as starting and stopping software modules, while the underlying firmware remains untouched.

Until today, operators mostly buy home gateways on the basis of fairly rigid RFQ specifications and it is not easy to update them or add new services at a later date. With the new approach the gateways become scalable. In addition, the extensive remote management capabilities allow to improve the quality of technical support and service and thereby help to create highly satisfied broadband subscribers which is key to customer retention.

The combination of OSGi, HGI and BBF standards in one software solution allow broadband  providers to provide services and manage home gateways in a way widely accepted by market participants from a wide spectrum of industries. Moreover, they can benefit from a growing amount of off-the-shelf content and are open to innovative applications from a large community of developers.


About ProSyst

ProSyst is an OSGi and Java pioneer. The company is entirely focused on open standards technology and was most actively involved in helping to create the OSGi specification R1 - R4.
ProSyst offers products and services for all vertical markets that use OSGi technology, such as Mobile Devices, Smart Home, Automotive Telematics, Enterprise and Industrial Applications.
ProSyst brings together recognized OSGi and Java experts, professional processes and the ability to meet the technical requirements of commercial OSGi adopters. ProSyst provides a complete range of products and services from fundamental technology development, production and developer support, training and mentoring to device runtimes and remote management/ provisioning solutions.
The company was founded in 1997. Headquartered in Cologne, Germany ProSyst operates additional offices in Sofia, Bulgaria and Seoul, Korea. ProSyst is a privately held company and employs 120+ Java/OSGi engineers

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