IEEE 802.3 working group’s efforts in defining and promoting Ethernet
technology and standards applauded
PISCATAWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IEEE, the world's largest professional organization advancing technology
for humanity, today announced that the IEEE 802.3™ Ethernet Working
Group has been honored by the Ethernet Technology Summit (www.ethernetsummit.com)
with its Ethernet Achievement Award. The award recognizes
the contributions of the working group in defining and promoting
Ethernet technology and standards.
“Without the time and effort dedicated by key people and the ideas
they provided, Ethernet would not be the leading networking technology
in use today. Certainly the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group and its
members are among those individuals”
The IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group was honored during the Ethernet
Technology Summit’s 40th Anniversary Celebration on April 3
in Santa Clara, Calif.
“Without the time and effort dedicated by key people and the ideas
they provided, Ethernet would not be the leading networking technology
in use today. Certainly the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group and its
members are among those individuals,” said Lance A. Leventhal, program
chairperson of the Ethernet Technology Summit. “The IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
Working Group is responsible for many standards that have contributed
substantially to making Ethernet a huge success story.”
Ethernet is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Deployment of
technology defined by the IEEE 802.3 standard is already globally
pervasive, driven by the ever-growing needs of local area, access and
metropolitan area networks around the world. Beyond traditional
networks, new application areas such as networking for automotive and
other industries are looking to expand their reliance on Ethernet in
their networks. To better address the needs of all of these areas and
applications (e.g. industrial and entertainment), the IEEE 802.3
Ethernet standard is constantly evolving and expanding. The success of
the standard—from its inception through today—has been its open and
transparent development process. This is a prime example of the
“OpenStand” principles (http://open-stand.org).
These principles encapsulate a modern paradigm for global, open
standards that can be extended broadly to other technology spaces.
“On behalf of the working group, I thank the Ethernet Technology Summit
for the Ethernet Achievement Award,” said Wael William Diab, vice chair
of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group and senior technical director
at Broadcom. “IEEE is a proven environment for developing market-driven
standards that become widely deployed and globally relevant, and in no
technology space has this dynamic been more evident than in Ethernet and
the IEEE 802.3 family of standards. IEEE 802.3 initially was developed
in order to standardize connectivity among personal computers, printers,
servers and other devices inside a LAN, but the standard has steadily
evolved to deliver increased capacities and connect more devices, users,
media types and protocols across more types of networks.”
The Ethernet Technology Summit also recognized several members of the
IEEE 802.3 working group for their individual contributions to the
Ethernet industry, including Brad Booth, distinguished engineer, Dell;
John D’Ambrosia, chief Ethernet evangelist, Dell; Howard Frazier, senior
technical director, Broadcom, and Shimon Muller, senior principal
engineer, Oracle. Additionally, among those honored by the IEEE Santa
Clara Valley Section with its Unsung Heroes Award were working-group
member Geoff Thompson and former working-group member Ron Crane.
For more information about the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group, please
visit http://standards.ieee.org/develop/wg/WG802.3.html.
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Supporting Quotes
David Law, chair of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group and
distinguished engineer with HP Networking
“By any measure, the
IEEE 802.3 ‘Standard for Ethernet’ has proven to be an unmitigated
success. IEEE 802.3 technologies and the varied Ethernet networks that
they enable are globally pervasive, and Ethernet’s application horizon
continues to expand. The working group stays focused on assessing and
anticipating market need and evolving IEEE 802.3 for new opportunities.”
Paul Nikolich, chair of the IEEE 802®
LAN/MAN Standards Committee
“Over several decades, thousands of
hard-working, dedicated individuals have contributed to Ethernet’s
success through the IEEE 802.3 working group, and they are to be
congratulated on the Ethernet Technology Summit’s honor. Ethernet is
well positioned for the long run. The technology is proven; its
installed base is huge, and multi-dimensional innovation is incessant.”
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