Tag Archives: Wired & Wireless

New iPhone® App – Fingertip Access to the IEEE Standards Wireless Dictionary

By Admin in Announcements, Standards at Work on 12/30/2010 Comments closed
The IEEE Standards Wireless Dictionary is now available for the iPhone, and purchasable through iTunes®. Our broad array of terms and definitions are not found on any other single source, and to date have been indexed largely in print and PDF formats.  The IEEE Standards Wireless Dictionary is our first iPhone application, providing fingertip access [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]