Once upon a time, standards were our friends. They provided industry-accepted blueprints for building homogeneous infrastructures that were reliably interoperable. Company A could confidently build an ...

The last newsletter began to address the topic of what is a standard and used the Bell System and IBM’s SNA as examples of standards that came to life without a standards committee. This newsletter ...

In building internal IT architectures, IT managers traditionally have looked to guidance from standards bodies such as the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), which has developed technical and ...

Just when consumers have learned to use--and pronounce--the wireless networks known as 802.11, along comes a few new versions that threaten to confuse the market. Millions of people and businesses ...

Several important new standards for optical networking were adopted by the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in November. The new standards provide the ability to combine ...

At Interop this month, we heard keynotes from two network vendors who are not only archrivals in a business sense but also in their approach to the market. Cisco represents market power, account ...

Looking over the landscape of recent blog posts on open social networking, it's clear that folks are interested in connecting together some of their disparate accounts on a wide range of social ...

JULY 10, 2023– Since the mid to late 80s, cabling standards have been constantly evolving. Understanding the key performance differences of each new iteration can be confusing. To help bring clarity ...

It's a nice thought that every Wi-Fi wireless card will work with every Wi-Fi network. After all, that's what standards are all about. Unfortunately, this isn't always the case -- there's no ...

Until recently, the outlook for 802.11n standardization, which promises speeds of up to 100mbits per second, was looking brighter than it had in months. After much haggling over minute details, TGn ...

Turning Standards Into Solutions: Automation, Quality of Experience, and Wholesale Network Tools Are Themes of the Live Demos at Network X in Paris The Broadband Forum will debut cutting-edge ...