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 ...

Motorola this week reiterated its support for the HomeRF wireless technology in its cable modems, giving the home networking standard a boost after Intel recently switched camps and backed a rival ...

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 ...

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 ...

“No new wires” is the rallying cry of four different standards contending for dominance in the potentially lucrative home-networking market. While it is increasingly common for new construction to ...

Ready for another wireless networking standard? Chipmaking start-up Atheros is tuning in to 802.11a, a standard that promises both higher performance than the popular 802.11b technology and lower ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here's an idea for getting less expensive specialty networking DRAMs: create a JEDEC standard for them. Networking DRAMs are now a standoff between proprietary camps. There is Fast Cycle RAM of ...

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

If you are a networking manager in a multinational based in the U.S. that is trying to standardize on networking technologies companywide, you could probably use a little more homogeneity among ...