The IEEE Standards Association approved the latest revision to its IEEE...
The IEEE Standards Association approved the latest revision to its IEEE 802.3 “Standard for Ethernet,” the organization said Wednesday. The standard, which IEEE said has a “pervasive” presence worldwide, defines wired Ethernet connectivity on local area, access and metropolitan area…
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networks. The newest revision includes technical updates and consolidates amendments approved since IEEE 802.3 was last fully revised in 2008, IEEE said. “IEEE 802.3 is constantly being refined to address new challenges and applications,” Wael William Diab, vice-chair of the IEEE 802.3 working group, said in a news release. “We see the standard being expanded horizontally to address the specific needs of new markets such as energy efficiency, in-car networking, data-center networking and content delivery. At the same time, IEEE 802.3’s relevance is being expanded vertically in terms of bandwidth speeds and connection media. Work, in fact, is already underway on a variety of fronts that will have dramatic impact on the next generations of the world’s ubiquitous wired connectivity protocol of choice” (http://xrl.us/bnoiqu).