This technical report by the Broadband Forum, called “TR-124,” was published in December 2020. It contains requirements for a residential gateway between a broadband network such as DSL (digital data over analog telephone wires) or GPON (gigabit passive optical network using fiber optics) and a home network. Applications include voice, data, broadcast video, video-on-demand and two-way video using broadband networks. Among the requirements is support for IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6), which extends the address space of IPv4 from 32 bits to 128 bits, in that way making it possible to accommodate billions more devices.
Key words: broadband, wireless standards