IEEE SA Working Groups

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Connectivity & Telecom

IEEE SA Working Groups3 March 2021

Expanding Singlemode Fiber Capabilities in Ethernet Applications

The lifecycles of technology innovation and standards refinement are tightly entwined in a space as huge and long-lasting as Ethernet. For example, the new IEEE 802.3cu™, IEEE Draft Standard for Ethernet Amendment: Physical Layers and Management Parameters for 100 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s Operation over Single-Mode Fiber at 100 Gb/s…
Technology

IEEE SA Working Groups10 December 2020

IEEE 3079 Standards Aim to Tackle Cybersickness in Virtual Reality

Head-mounted displays (HMDs) for virtual reality (VR) began arriving in the global marketplace in the mid 2010s, and their initial popular uptake quickly confirmed developers’ belief in their promise across a wide range of application areas including medicine, education, art, and especially gaming. But almost as quickly, a hurdle to…
Mobility

IEEE SA Working Groups26 October 2020

IEEE 802.1AS-2020 Standard Fuels Growth of Industrial Automation, Automotive Networking, and 5G Applications

With a growing need for Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN), primarily to meet new and developing industrial automation and in-vehicle networking applications, the IEEE 802.1 Working Group continues to expand the development of standards for the transport of synchronized time over Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) and Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) networks. This is essential…
Connectivity & Telecom

IEEE SA Working Groups19 October 2020

New IEEE 802.3™ Standards Provide Platforms for the Next Ethernet Innovations

Pragmatic, market-driven standardization continually expands the low-cost foundation on which Ethernet innovation takes place, across the technology’s sprawling horizon of use cases. Standards development through the IEEE 802.3™ Ethernet Working Group for decades has helped support the creation of more varied and powerful solutions at a better cost structure. Because…
Learning & Education

IEEE SA Working Groups10 October 2020

New Standard Will Help Nations Accelerate Digital Literacy and Digital Skills Building

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a global rush towards the digital transformation of nearly all aspects of daily life. Given the pace of these changes, digital literacy and digital skills have become a mandatory part of education and training for all people. It is critical for nations to rapidly…
Healthcare & Life Sciences

IEEE SA Working Groups13 August 2020

Sharing Analytics: Developing A Standard To Employ High Impact Analytics Without Stressing Networks

Since the recent outbreak of COVID-19, clinical researchers, drug manufacturers, economists, social scientists, and other experts have sought access to data for analytics. Much of the data resides in disparate networks and within organizational boundaries. It takes considerable time and effort to obtain permission to acquire this data, to gain…
Technology

IEEE SA Working Groups11 August 2020

Fostering Process Standardization in Cryptocurrency

The cryptocurrency industry has grown rapidly into a very large industry, with numerous “coins,” hundreds of exchanges, and payments exceeding $1 million USD each day. A lack of globally relevant industry standards in the field has held back its widespread adoption among business and consumers. Consumers have found it difficult…
Networking & Internet

IEEE SA Working Groups30 July 2020

More Users, Faster Access, More Services: The Ongoing Ethernet Bandwidth Explosion

Trends around traffic drivers such as video, 5G, and IEEE 802.11™ ‘Wi-Fi®’ point toward an ongoing bandwidth explosion for Ethernet networks around the world going forward. The publicly available IEEE 802.3™ Ethernet Bandwidth Assessment report details undeniable, simultaneous trends toward more users, faster access speeds, more services, more devices coming…
Healthcare & Life Sciences

IEEE SA Working Groups7 July 2020

COVID-19 and Beyond: New IEEE 2791-2020 Standard Uses Bioinformatics to Speed Drug Development

Genome sequencing has enormous potential for personalized medicine, mitigating the next pandemic, and more. But it can’t live up to that potential if researchers don’t have a standardized way to communicate and share genome data analysis methods. Today, there are dozens of platforms, scripts, and tools for analyzing genome data,…
News & Articles

IEEE SA Working Groups23 June 2020

New IEEE 802.3 Standard Amendments Serve Growing Ethernet Deployments

It goes without saying that Ethernet is easily the world’s most widely used local area networking (LAN) technology. Today, hundreds of millions of Ethernet network interface cards (NICs), repeater ports, and switching hub ports have been deployed, making Ethernet the world’s premier network technology. The utilization of Ethernet will continue…