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 ...

Broadcom unveils a unified networking fabric and integration with Cisco to enhance interoperability and simplify private ...

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 ...

Wireless networking is part of the furniture these days, but the zoo of standards still baffles the non-specialist. This can in part be put down to the 802.11 wireless LAN working group, which has 250 ...

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 ...

Vehicles will be home for some of the most diverse network and multiprocessing technology over the next five years. Standards will help improve acceptance and reduce costs, but the competitive nature ...

WASHINGTON — Eight large U.S. IT vendors have joined together in calling for open standards to be used in building a nationwide health information network proposed by the U.S. Department of Health and ...

Medicaid managed care network adequacy standards exhibit significant heterogeneity across regions and specialties, potentially creating large variations in health care access and quality. Objectives: ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. The market for in-vehicle communications network technology looks neat and tidy — from a distance. Controller area network (CAN) handles most of the ...