Last year, we said Carrier Ethernet won't revolutionize the WAN, and we were right. Carrier Ethernet is growing, but geographic coverage hasn't grown fast enough.
Standards Groups You Can't Ignore
All corners of IT are affected by standards--competing standards, emergent standards and those driven through legislation and regulation. Keep your eye on the following standards bodies in 2007.
IETF NEA
The IETF's Network Endpoint Assessment working group is chartered with standardizing the communications and formats for exchanging a host's health information with a validation server. The working group won't engage in discussions about enforcing access controls, nor will it be involved in determining how to detect a lying endpoint. NEA is a valiant effort and might bring together divergent groups such as Cisco Systems, Microsoft and the Trusted Computing Group to hammer out a set of agreed-upon standards.
Metro Ethernet Forum
Verizon is demoing crowd analytics technology that uses 5G along with AI and mobile edge computing to give stadium operators insights into the flow of fans throughout a venue.
As we move closer to fully realizing the potential of Wi-Fi 7, it becomes evident that the RF, signaling, and throughput tests are not merely procedural checkpoints but the pillars of excellence in wireless communication.
With low earth orbit (LEO) satellites fast becoming the norm and 3GPP unifying telecom standards around the globe, the satellite IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) sector ought to be looking at a bright horizon. But is this the case?
