Tag: StandardsWatch

The first use of the Domain Name System (DNS) took place on 23-June-1983 at the University of Southern California School ...

The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), and TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) will combine their information and modeling approaches to help ...

BT, Cisco System, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Siemens are among the founding members of a new RosettaNet Telecommunications ...

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) formalized its relationship with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and agreed to coordinate standards development ...

The Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA) finalized its third-generation technical specification for networking over existing telephone wiring inside a home. ...

The DSL Forum launched a new initiative aimed at extending broadband services past DSL modems and into other devices inside ...

Eleven DSL semiconductor and system vendors announced their commitment to discrete multi-tone (DMT) modulation as the line code for standard-compliant ...

The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) will host a multi-vendor interoperability demonstration of carrier-grade metro Ethernet services at the upcoming SUPERCOMM ...

Twelve companies participated in an MPLS interoperability test "hot stage event" conducted last week at the University of New Hampshire's ...

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) approved a new Security Extension for the User-to-Network Interface (UNI) and Network-to-Network Interface (NNI) Implementation ...

Market researchers are forecasting up to 175 million multimedia network nodes in US homes by 2007, according to panelists speaking ...

A new IEEE task force has been established to develop the standard for 10-Gigabit copper Ethernet. The goal is to ...

The Metro Ethernet Forum reported progress from its recently concluded 2nd quarterly meeting in Vancouver. Among the items are: completed ...