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 ...

A key standards body has given its blessing for a new technology that allows storage area networks to be built using existing Ethernet networking. Late Tuesday, the Internet Engineering Task Force ...

Enterprises will be hoping that two warring standards bodies can next week sort out a problem with the widely used MPLS protocol that threatens to cause widespread disruption in companies' wide area ...

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 ...

Industry groups backing competing wireless standards have admitted that they must start cooperating more for users' sake. The proliferation of competing wireless standards risks confusing technology ...

Despite slow progress, NetSecOpen — a group of network security companies and hardware testing organizations — aims to have its testing and benchmark standards in place by later this year. The group ...

Standard-driven: ETSI had a very important role in the network functions virtualization (NFV) industry. It defined a common architecture view on what an NFV system should look like, and created a ...

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 ...

I’m amused at how often I hear negative comments about proprietary enhancements from Cisco. I am one of many (many, many, many) employees of Cisco who is actively involved in standards body ...