ADVISORY/Next IEEE 802.17 Working Group Meeting Scheduled for Resilient Packet Ring Standardization Effort.News/Assignment Editors & High-Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Sunday-Friday (Nov. 11-16) SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 2001 Representatives From 90 Working Group Companies Continue to Work to Converge Standard Drafts The Resilient Packet Ring See RPR. Alliance, an industry advocacy group promoting the standardization of resilient packet ring (RPR (Resilient Packet Ring) A packet-based protocol that provides fault tolerance and statistical multiplexing for the metropolitan and national SONET and Ethernet networks of the carriers. ) technology, today announced that the next IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.17 working group meeting will be held next week in Austin, Texas. RPR is a new highly scalable Layer 2 technology that addresses the bandwidth limitations resulting from growing data traffic in carrier networks. At the meeting, the working group, which comprises 130 voting members representing 90 companies, will continue its effort to standardize RPR. "During this meeting, we will work to converge the multiple ideas into a single cohesive proposal," said Robert Love For the American Revolutionary War soldier, see . Robert Matthew Love (born September 25, 1981) is an American author, speaker, and open source software developer. , chair of the RPR Alliance and vice chair of the IEEE 802.17 working group. "We have made excellent progress to date on the standardization effort, and I am confident that this meeting will be successful and keep us on schedule to have a draft available in January."
What: IEEE 802.17 Working Group Meeting
When: November 11-16, 2001
Where: Hyatt Regency Austin
Austin, Texas
Information: www.ieee802.org/17
About the Resilient Packet Ring Alliance The RPR Alliance, founded in January 2001, is an industry advocacy group committed to the development of an RPR technology standard for the networking industry. The Alliance promotes the adoption of an RPR standard for LANs, MANs, and WANs by educating the networking industry about RPR technology and the benefits of an IEEE standard and encouraging multi-vendor interoperability. Principal members of the RPR Alliance include Alcatel, Alidian Networks, AuroraNetics, Ciena, Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Corrigent Systems, Dynarc, Lantern Communications, Luminous Networks, Mindspeed Technologies, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Corporation, Nortel Networks, Riverstone Networks, and Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation. Avaya Communication, Chip Engines, and Huawei Tech Co. are participating members in the Alliance. For more information about the alliance, see www.RPRAlliance.org. |
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