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Focus on Security: Xerox and the P2600 Security Working Group
White Papers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers created the P2600: Hardcopy Device and System Security Working Group to develop security standards. The focus of the Working Group is to identify and document security issues and threats, and...
[May 1, 2009, 1:18]
802.11n: The End of Ethernet?
White Papers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11n standard represents the beginning of the end for wired Ethernet as the dominant Local Area Network (LAN) access technology in the enterprise.
[November 13, 2009, 0:21]
Stronger Wi-Fi security spec nearing approval
News The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers standards board will decide on Thursday whether the current version of the 802.11i specification is reliable enough to become an industry standard.
[June 24, 2004, 9:00]
TechNet Webcast: Security Matters: Security for Wireless Networks (Level 300)
White Papers The presenter discusses the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.x networking standards and the differences between Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP), Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), and Wired Equivalent...
[June 19, 2008, 1:01]
Initial Performance Evaluation and Analysis of the Global OFDM Metropolitan Area Network Standard IEEE 802.16a / ETSI HiperMAN
White Papers The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) have lately developed a new standard for fixed broadband wireless access systems in frequency bands below 11 GHz.
[April 13, 2007, 1:01]
802.11n Wireless Technology Overview: Deploying the Next Generation of High Performance Wireless
White Papers The latest generation of high-speed wireless LAN solutions, based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Draft 802.11n standard, are now available. In less than a decade, wireless LANs have evolved from an interesting idea...
[October 7, 2008, 1:01]
Track and protect your data flow with the 802.11 Protocol Map
White Papers As with any international standard developed by an organization with as diverse a membership as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Finding your way through the complicated maze of the 802.11 protocol can be a daunting task.
[May 17, 2006, 1:00]
Engineers predict computing rebound
News The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) said its "fellows" in the computer industry were 20 percent more likely than IEEE fellows on the whole to predict a recovery for their segment in the near future.
[December 31, 2002, 9:50]
Ethernet inventor welcomed into Hall of Fame
News Along the way, Metcalfe has racked up several awards and honours, including the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1980 and the Alexander Graham Bell Medal from the Institute of Electrical and...
[May 8, 2007, 17:54]
Establishing Wireless Robust Security Networks: A Guide to IEEE 802.11i
White Papers This guide seeks to assist organizations in better understanding the most commonly used family of standards for WLANs - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 - focusing on the security enhancements introduced in the IEEE...
[October 1, 2008, 1:01]
Catch the new wave in wireless networking: 802.11n review
Reviews The 802.11n standard is still being ironed out, and the IEEE, or Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, doesn't expect to ratify this developing specification until 2006. Reflections off of metal furniture or construction materials in...
[May 3, 2005, 12:05]
Unisys ventures into Indian outsourcing
News Last month, the US wing of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers expressed fears that offshore outsourcing poses threats to the nation's technological leadership. Unisys said it plans to hire software engineers and data-processing...
[April 28, 2004, 16:45]
Is roaming coming to Wi-Fi?
News He's attending a meeting this week of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in Monterey, California, held to discuss how to jumpstart Wi-Fi roaming. The European Telephone Standards Institute (ETSI) is making a similar effort...
[September 11, 2002, 8:10]
Bob Evans, mainframe pioneer, dies
News In 1991, he was presented with a Computer Pioneer Award from the Computing Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Evans began working at IBM in 1951 as a junior engineer after earning a bachelor's degree in electrical...
[September 6, 2004, 8:45]
Cisco quells 'dictionary attack'
News In February, Cisco submitted documentation to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for EAP-FAST, which eliminates some of the problems with LEAP. Last August, Wright, who works for the SANS Institute network security group...
[April 15, 2004, 9:00]
Wireless networking wars hit speed bump
News The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has created 802.11A, a standard that will run at data transfer rates of 54mbps. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute has created a competing high-speed standard called...
[February 27, 2001, 9:22]
'Flying' micro-robot developed by researchers
News Mustafa Yavuz, submitted the paper to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for consideration for publication in September last year. A flying micro-robot has been developed by...
[April 9, 2009, 18:29]
The Year Ahead: Gazing into the chip crystal ball
News Error rates are fast approaching those of electrical systems, and he reports densities of around 1000 independent signals per square centimetre of chip area. Compared to the Bladerunner world conjured up by the above, a paper from seven Dutch...
[December 27, 2001, 6:31]
Google takes action to build IPv6 momentum
News For a technical taste of how Google sees the world, peruse The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data, published recently by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and written by Google researchers Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig and Fernando...
[March 27, 2009, 16:42]
IEEE backs off on copyright law
News The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) said it will no longer require authors to attest that their work does not violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. A major publisher of scientific research is reversing a policy...
[April 17, 2002, 9:07]
