The Broadband Forum released its BroadbandSuite 3.2, adding enhanced remote management capabilities for service providers who need to support advanced residential gateways and CPE. The new tools provide the ability to manage gateways in new ways, including downloading, installing and activating new software/applications. 
BroadbandSuite™3.2 provides enhanced CPE WAN Management Protocol (CWMP) and establishes a converged Device and Gateway Root Data Model. This release extends Connected Home remote management abilities to enable operators to offer new applications via the gateway, to effectively address the plethora of new devices being introduced to the home, as well as improve back office billing and operations integration. Written in XML, these specifications remove the potential for user interpretation error and provide new implementation ease of data models.
