Transcript networking standards organizations

networking standards
organizations
Objectives
• Identify networking standards
organizations
• Describe the functions of the principal
networking standards organizations
Network Standards
Organizations
• Help ensure that equipment from different
manufacturers can be integrated
• Key role in growth of networks and
network equipment
Network Standards
Organizations
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ITU
International Telecommunications Union
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
ISOC
Internet Society
IETF
Internet Society and the Internet Engineering
Task Force
EIA/TIA
Electronic Industries Alliance and the
Telecommunications Industry Association
ANSI
• Established in 1918
• Standards for wide range of products
• Computer industry standards:
– Screen-display attributes
– Digital telecommunications
– Fiber-optic cable transmissions
IEEE
• International organization of scientists,
engineers, technicians, and educators
• Develops networking standards for
network cabling and data transmissions
– 802 standards
ITU
• Sets telecommunications standards for
modem and WAN communications
• International organization
ISO
• Establishes communications and
networking standards
• Known for its contributions to network
protocol standards
• International organization
ISOC and IETF
• ISOC
– Sponsors conferences and publications and
oversees Internet standards
– Nonprofit international organization
– Supporter of Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN)
• IETF
– Arm of ISOC that works on Internet-related
technical issues such as routing