The Broadband Forum (BBF) has demonstrated a technology called dynamic session steering, as part of its Cloud Central Office (CloudCO) project. This uses software-defined networking (SDN) to reconfigure a user’s connection dynamically depending on the application they are using, and is the latest in a line of developments that will be relevant to mobile and converged operators, as well as fixed-line players. Launched in 2016, CloudCO is working on an SDN-based model that harnesses cloud capabilities and virtualization to enable more agile networks, and ones based on open interfaces that support multivendor roll-outs. Tim Carey, lead technology strategist at Nokia and chair of BBF’s Open Broadband Access Abstraction project, said most CloudCO specifications have been published and now the aim…