While Faultline has heard countless companies rightly shout about their 2020 successes, others have appeared almost sheepish about celebrating achievements in a year where millions of people – and businesses – have suffered hardships. As the Broadband Forum announced a record year for the development of open source technology projects, it prompted Faultline to ponder the other notable open source achievements of 2020 that have helped shape the foundations of media and communications. First and foremost, 2020 is the year the Broadband Forum came of age. The non-profit organization published 25 Technical Reports – covering the work areas of access and transport architectures, broadband user services, fiber access networks, SDN and NFV, wireless-wireline convergence, physical layer transformation and transmission, and…