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Foil 21 Standards

From Introduction to Networking Technologies CPS640 MultiMedia and Networking -- Spring Semester 1998. by Roman Markowski


1 Standard organizations and consortia define the physical and operational characteristics of networking hardware and software. Standards are recommendations that vendors should follow to achieve interoperability with products from other vendors.
2 Standards Organizations
  • IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
  • IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • ANSI - American National Standards Institute
  • ITU-T - International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication. Standardization Section (previous CCITT)
  • ISO - International Organization for Standardization
3 Industry Consortia
  • ATM Forum - ATM technology
  • Frame Relay Forum - Frame Relay technology
  • W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
  • Network Management Forum

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