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 ...

The networking company is supporting a previously shunned networking standard in an effort to tap into a growing part of the storage market, the company plans to announce Tuesday. Stephen Shankland ...

Leading IT vendors have proposed a new Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) standard to the T11 Committee of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The new FCoE specification is designed to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The WiGig 1.0 standard combines two different wireless technologies: 60-gigahertz wireless and Wi-Fi. The first technology uses the 60-gigahertz band of the wireless spectrum to create a 10-meter ...

Why there’s a need for common standards for wireless communication in smart-home applications. The pros and cons of wireless network protocols, including Zigbee, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Matter, Thread, and ...

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 ...

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG), whose promoters include IBM, Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., has released details of a new Trusted Network Connect (TNC) architectural standard for authenticating ...

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 ...