Broadband World Forum has rebranded as Network X, merging with 5G World and Telco Cloud to appeal as a network-agnostic or converged showcase. At the show, the Broadband Forum standards body was highlighting multivendor momentum with demonstrations including implementations of specifications enabling greater automation, reduced network congestion, improved interoperability, and broadband slicing. This last was backed by 14 companies, and is not as new as it sounds. Broadband Forum members have taken a leaf or two from the 5G book of network slicing, which in broadband is better known as dynamic subscriber session steering. ISPs can reallocate resources between isolated slices in a network, effectively increasing a subscriber’s bandwidth on-demand. This in turn allows ISPs to ensure lower latency. After…