Standards (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.

Industry Consortia
- ATM Forum - ATM technology
- Frame Relay Forum - Frame Relay technology
- W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
- Network Management Forum

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.