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IEEE P2200 – A NEW STANDARD FOR HIGH QUALITY MOBILE ENTERTAINMENT (HQME)

By Admin in Announcements, Inside the IEEE-SA on 02/17/2011 Comments closed
On February 14th, the IEEE Standards Board approved the development of draft standard IEEE P2200TM – Standard Protocol for Stream Management in Media Client Devices.  The IEEE’s P2200 Working Group will facilitate the collaboration of an array of industry leaders, who will address the cost and bandwidth issues associated with delivering rich content to portable [...]

IEEE 802.3az Wins Best Electronic Design Award

By Admin in Announcements on 01/05/2011 Comments closed
This week, we learned that the Energy Efficient Ethernet IEEE 802.3az Standard won the Best Electronic Design award for 2010 in the Communications – Wired category. We celebrate this honor along with the contributions of the highly dedicated volunteer participants who labored on the development this Standard.  Specifically, we congratulate the 802.3 Ethernet Working Group [...]

Insightful Reads – Week of December 28th

By Admin in Insightful Reads on 12/28/2010 Comments closed
A Seamless Blend – Intelligent Utility Dick Deblasio is a lifetime IEEE Member and Chairman of IEEE’s P2030 Smart Grid Interoperability Working Group. His article on the Smart Grid is featured on Intelligent Utility this week.  Rick highlights some of his group’s activity as a “Missing Link” effort in the creation of the Smart Grid, [...]

A New Standard for the Networked, Interconnected Consumer

By Admin in Announcements on 12/14/2010 Comments closed
As consumers use different technologies to support an expanding array of connected consumer electronics and devices, such as televisions, computers, game consoles, and smart phones and tablet PCs, the use of home networks is growing.  Home networks are not just becoming more common, they are becoming more complex, especially as consumers use them to share [...]

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 [...]

Forging New Opportunities for International Standards Collaboration

By Admin in Announcements, Inside the IEEE-SA on 10/22/2010 Comments closed
We’re happy to announce that the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) has signed four new Memorandums of Understanding with four standards organizations in Korea, Japan and the Middle East. The two-year agreements lay the groundwork for knowledge sharing between standards development groups, facilitate technical cooperation, and create opportunities for future International standards collaboration between parties. The [...]

802.11 Working Group: Speeding Us On Our Way for 20 Years

By Admin in Standards at Work, Standards Development Process on 09/16/2010 Comments closed
Believe it or not, the 802.11™ Working Group is celebrating its 20th anniversary as an active wireless standards development organization. Time flies – and thanks to this productive group, so does communication. When project IEEE 802.11 (Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN)) was created in September of 1990, its original goals were to bring together forward-thinking [...]