Category Archives: IEEE-SA Programs & Services

Boosting India’s Involvement in Global Standards

By Admin in Announcements, IEEE-SA Programs & Services, Inside the IEEE-SA, International Collaboration, Standards Development Process on 03/08/2011 Comments closed
The IEEE-SA’s Jennie Steinhagen (IEEE-SA), Bob Labelle (IEEE-SA Technology Solutions), Sri Chandra (Chair, IEEE SIG), Dennis Brophy (Chair, IEEE-SA CAG), Pamela Kumar (IEEE-SA BOG) and others participated in a three city workshop outreach in February, 2011. The IEEE-SA is enthusiastic about the flood of interest in standards collaboration by IEEE’s large and expanding constituency in [...]

IEEE-SA Leads Standards Workshop at EnergyCon in Bahrain

By Admin in IEEE-SA Programs & Services, Inside the IEEE-SA, International Collaboration on 03/03/2011 Comments closed
IEEE-SA President Elect presents a Speaker Acknowledgment Award to Saleh Al-Amri of Saudi Aramco In December 2010, the IEEE‐Standards Association (IEEE-SA) jointly organized a full day Standards Workshop at IEEE International Energy Conference & Exhibition in Manama, Bahrain to support the activities of IEEE Region 8 and the International community at large.  The event was [...]

IEEE-SA Discusses Collaboration in Germany

By Admin in IEEE-SA Programs & Services, Inside the IEEE-SA, International Collaboration on 02/11/2011 Comments closed
The IEEE-SA Standards Board (SASB) held its September meeting series in Berlin, Germany. IEEE-SA President Chuck Adams, President-Elect Steve Mills, and  Treasurer Don Wright led teams of SASB members and IEEE staff on outreach meetings with several key German standards development organizations and government institutions. As with previous outreaches in China and India, the sessions [...]

The Story of IEEE 1149.7 – Less Red Tape, More Rigor!

By Admin in Case Studies, IEEE-SA Programs & Services, Standards at Work on 01/28/2011 Comments closed
Last year’s publication of IEEE Std 1149.7™, “IEEE Standard for Reduced-pin and Enhanced-functionality Test Access Port and Boundary Scan Architecture,” (often called JTAG) was the result of several years of hard work, but it illustrated the value of the IEEE standardization process as well as our entity program (also known as the “Corporate Program”) for [...]

IEEE-SA Corporate Program Hits All-Time Membership High

By Admin in Announcements, IEEE-SA Programs & Services on 01/14/2011 Comments closed
As we enter into 2011, we are looking forward to seeing more growth in the IEEE-SA Corporate Program.  At the end of last year,  Corporate Membership hit an all-time high, with  75 percent growth from the beginning of 2010. During that time we expanded from 114 members to 200 Members. The Corporate Program is broad-based [...]

The 10 Commandments for Effective Standards

By Admin in IEEE-SA Programs & Services, Insightful Reads, Standards Development Process on 12/31/2010 Comments closed
Synopsys Press has just published IEEE-SA CAG member Karen Bartleson’s new book, The Ten Commandments for Effective Standards. Like so many standards-related projects, the it all started with her work in IEEE Standards Development. “I have been doing standards at Synopsys for about 15 years,” Bartleson says. “Along the way, I was on the board [...]

SIEPON takes FTTx to the next level

By Admin in IEEE-SA Programs & Services, Inside the IEEE-SA, Standards Development Process on 12/14/2010 Comments closed
Over 30 million subscribers are currently using 1G-EPON, or “Ethernet Passive Optical Networks.” If you think those numbers are high, industry experts say that 10 million more may soon be clamoring for fiber-to-the-home (or X, as in FTTx) networking services. While current EPON features fall nicely under IEEE’s 802 umbrella, the setup is challenged by [...]