ENVS 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Network Planning And Design, Standards Organization, Ieee 802.11
10 May 2018
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ENVS 1000 Chapter 19 Notes – Summary
Introduction
Standards
• The need for data communication standards is evident throughout this chapter.
• Amusingly, there is no single standard or standards organization for creating standards.
• Instead, there are a number of different government agencies, technical groups, trade
groups, and industry organizations, each of whom are responsible for particular areas of
standardization.
• Occasionally, this has resulted in competitions and conflicts, but for the most part this
technique has worked pretty well.
• The major organizations that participate in the creation of standards for data
communications, networks, and internetworks include ISO, the International
Organization for Standardization, an agency made up of standards-setting organizations
from many countries (www.iso.ch).
• The International Telecommunications Union Telecommunications Group (ITU-T), a UN
agency made up of various major players from other standards organizations,
government agencies, and industry representatives
• The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a technical organization that
oversees most local area networking standards (www.standards.ieee.org)
• The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a large volunteer group of network
designers, network operators, industry representatives, and researchers, operated
under the auspices of the Internet Society, a nonprofit corporation (www.ietf.org).
• ISO is probably best known to network engineers for its development of the OSI
Reference Model.
• It has also published more than 17,000 international standards on a wide variety of
topics, ranging from steel to sewing machines to telecommunications.
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