MSF: Interoperability Forum Folds, Leaves Impact on Industry
By Jim McEachern, Communications Consultant The maturity of today’s multiservice network architecture owes a lot to initiatives like the MultiService ...
Tag: Standards
Dell Proposes SDN Working Committee in Object Management Group
Dell is proposing a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) standardization working committee within the Object Management Group (OMG). The OMG develops enterprise ...
New Multi-Source Agreement for 40 Gbps XLMD2 Miniature Pluggable Transceivers
Five leading optical component manufacturers including LAPIS Semiconductor, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Oclaro, Renesas Electronics and Sumitomo Electric Industries, reached agreement ...
The Wi-Fi Alliance and Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Alliance Consolidate
The Wi-Fi Alliance and Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Alliance finalized the agreement for the consolidation of WiGig technology and certification development ...
NTCA and OPASTCO to Merge
The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA) and the Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies (OPASTCO) agreed ...
OIF Looks to 400G Modules, Transport SDN, E-NNI Neighbor Discovery
At its meeting last week in New Orleans, the Optical Internetworking Forum approved an implementation agreement for RSVP Extensions for ...
Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Moves Ahead
One year after launching its Carrier Ethernet 2.0 initiative, the Metro Ethernet Forum announced significant progress in its efforts to ...
ITU Approves High Efficiency Video Coding — H.265
The ITU-T’s Study Group 16 has agreed first-stage approval (consent) of H.265 or ISO/IEC 23008-2, also known as ‘High Efficiency ...
Wireless Charging Builds Momentum
The Power Matters Alliance (PMA), which is creating an ecosystem and open standard for smart wireless power, has added AT&T, Google and ...
Broadband Forum and UNH-IOL Launch TR-069 Certification
The Broadband Forum has launched its BBF.069 CPE Certification Program and announced the first certified devices. The certification program verifies ...
ONF Hosts OpenFlow Plugfest at Indiana University
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) hosted its second semi-annual PlugFest event to drive interoperability, certification, and commercialization of SDN and ...
GSA: HD Voice Launched on 45 Mobile Networks
Mobile HD Voice services based on Adaptive Multi Rate Wideband technology (W-AMR, standardized by 3GPP) are now commercially launched in almost 60% ...
IEEE 802.3 Group Looks Netxt Ethernet Speed — Road Towards 10 Tbps by 2020?
A new IEEE 802.3 Industry Connections Higher Speed Ethernet Consensus group has been formed to gather industry input toward the ...
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