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The post A Grant Will Help a Tribal-Owned and Managed ISP Better Bridge the Digital Divide appeared first on Internet Society. Read more »

The post Is Germany throwing its tech industry up to the wolves? (in German) appeared first on Internet Society. Read more »

DEKRA recognized as the first Authorized Test Laboratory for the MulteFire 1.0 Certification Program DEKRA, November 19, 2020 Read more »

Washington, DC – 19 November 2020 – As the global surge in Coronavirus continues, the Internet has become a critical part of daily life. In a new public pulse survey from the Internet Society, nearly 80 percent of respondents indicated that the Internet has become much more important in their lives as a result of the pandemic. Accessibility and reliability… Read more »

Program certifies Nokia small cell and customer premise equipment (CPE) as first MulteFire 1.0 compliant devices  FREMONT, CA – November 19, 2020 – The MulteFire Alliance (MFA) today announced the launch of its MulteFire 1.0 Certification Program. In addition, the first customer premise equipment (CPE) device has been certified compliant. With MulteFire technology, organizations can now cost-effectively deploy their own… Read more »

The post The Global Encryption Coalition Breaks Encryption Myths appeared first on Internet Society. Read more »

The post Prestigious Jonathan B. Postel Service Award Presented to Onno W. Purbo appeared first on Internet Society. Read more »

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Complete this form to download the ABI Research “The Importance of Spectrum Liberalization for Private 5G Networks” White Paper.   Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. Read more »

The post ‘Indonesia’s Internet Liberator’ Purbo bags Jonathan B. Postel Service Award appeared first on Internet Society. Read more »

Bangkok – 18 November, 2020 – The Internet Society, a global nonprofit organization that promotes the development and use of an open, globally connected, and secure Internet, today presented the prestigious Jonathan B. Postel Service Award to Onno W. Purbo for his sustained and substantial technical contributions, leadership, and service to the global Internet community. Named in honor of the technical… Read more »

The post Building bridges with bytes: how businesses are closing the digital divide appeared first on Internet Society. Read more »

The post WANT TO CLOSE CANADA’S DIGITAL DIVIDE? GROW THE SECTOR’S FUNDING ECOSYSTEM appeared first on Internet Society. Read more »

The post Prestigious Jonathan B. Postel Service Award Presented to Onno W. Purbo appeared first on Internet Society. Read more »

The post Routing Security: Why We All Care That Network Operators Up Their Game appeared first on Internet Society. Read more »

Streaming Video Alliance Announces Europe STREAMup 2020 Third Virtual Event in STREAMup Series Focuses on Measurement   FREMONT, Calif. — November 16, 2020 — The Streaming Video Alliance (the Alliance), a global technical association developing solutions to address critical technical challenges in delivering a high-quality video experience at scale, is hosting its first Europe STREAMup … Europe STREAMup 2020 Read… Read more »

The post U.S. internet monitoring threatens global data security appeared first on Internet Society. Read more »

The post Countries use Internet shutdown to control masses, experts say appeared first on Internet Society. Read more »

The post Governments square up for a fight with big tech over encryption appeared first on Internet Society. Read more »

The post How High Speed Internet Connectivity In Public Schools Can Save Nigeria’s Education System appeared first on Internet Society. Read more »

The post The Internet Society – Guide for Children’s Safety Online appeared first on Internet Society. Read more »

The post What Biden means for Big Tech—and Google in particular appeared first on Internet Society. Read more »

Co-packaging of communication interfaces project establishes OIF’s leadership in this critical new area of standards for interoperability Fremont, Calif. – OIF, the global industry forum accelerating market adoption of advanced interoperable optical networking solutions, today announced the start of the Co-Packaging Framework Implementation Agreement (IA) umbrella project. The new project start approval took place during last week’s Q420 Technical and… Read more »

The post Virtual Summit on Community Networks in Africa appeared first on Internet Society. Read more »

The 109th IETF meeting will be held online November 16-20 from 5:00 to 11:00 UTC each day. IETF 109 will cap a full year of online IETF meetings. Read more »

The post Why You Should Care About First-Party Data appeared first on Internet Society. Read more »

By Scott Fischel, MFA Certification Working Group Chair and Director of Technical Standards, Qualcomm  As a complement to the MulteFire 1.0 Certification Program, the MulteFire Alliance (MFA) is now offering the MulteFire 1.0 Regulatory Analysis White Paper to members. This white paper helps to identify existing radio regulatory requirements for unlicensed devices that may fit with MulteFire 1.0 eNodeB and… Read more »

The post Seamless Air Alliance CEO Talks OpenIFC Release 2 appeared first on Seamless Air Alliance. Read more »

The post Seamless eyes airline showcase of cellular roaming over Wi-Fi appeared first on Seamless Air Alliance. Read more »

The post Seamless Air Alliance Defines OpenIFC-Compliant Hardware appeared first on Seamless Air Alliance. Read more »

The post Seamless Air Alliance to Improve Onboard Roaming over Wi-Fi appeared first on Seamless Air Alliance. Read more »

The post Seamless Air Alliance Publishes Release 2.0 OpenIFC Standard appeared first on Seamless Air Alliance. Read more »

The post APEX Weekly Wrap: GX+ North America and Spirit’s New Loyalty Program appeared first on Seamless Air Alliance. Read more »

The post Seamless Air Alliance updates inflight connectivity standard appeared first on Seamless Air Alliance. Read more »

The post Seamless Air Alliance announces Release 2.0 of its OpenIFC architecture appeared first on Seamless Air Alliance. Read more »

The post Seamless Air Alliance advances inflight connectivity innovation with new Release appeared first on Seamless Air Alliance. Read more »

The post Seamless Air Alliance advances inflight connectivity innovation with new Release appeared first on Seamless Air Alliance. Read more »

The post Section 230 hangs in the balance after attacks from Biden and Trump appeared first on Internet Society. Read more »

We have three general categories of issues: stabilizing and documenting the v3 grammar, managing the costs and speed of the v3 editing process, and managing the output formats. Read more »

Release 16 frozen, with 5G NR-Unlicensed a highlight for private networks Rethink Research, July 6, 2020 Read more »

LIPA announces the Date and Time for its Annual General Meeting, aka “AGM” The meeting will be held virtually on Monday, December 7, 2020, from 8am-12pm EST (New York Time); 5am-9am PST (LA Time); 9pm-1am China time; 10pm-2am Japan time; 2pm-6pm Europe Time. This year’s program is taking shape with the following confirmed speakers/topics ·      Dr. Karl Schulmeister […] The post LIPA announces… Read more »

Registration is now open and the final agenda has been published for the IETF 109 Online meeting hosted by Cisco. Read more »

Two proposals for early-stage discussion were made for IETF 109. Read more »

FREMONT, CA – October 20, 2020 – The Ultra HD Forum celebrates its fifth year of successfully bringing together broadcasters, service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers, and technology vendors to accelerate Ultra HD television deployment. The Forum has refreshed its website to better reflect its activities during this time of constrained in-person interactions. Version 2.4 of the Forum’s popular Guidelines includes more… Read more »

Streaming Video Alliance Returns to Cyberspace for Q3/Q4 Member Meeting Alliance Introduces New Players and Playback Study Group   FREMONT, Calif. — October 12, 2020 — The Streaming Video Alliance (the Alliance), a global technical association developing solutions to address critical technical challenges in delivering a high-quality video experience at scale, returns to Cyberspace for … Q3/Q4 Member Meeting Read… Read more »

Streaming Video Alliance Opens Applications for 2021 Membership Grant Program Alliance Commits to Awarding at Least 50% of 2021 Grants to Underrepresented Businesses   FREMONT, Calif. — October 1, 2020 — The Streaming Video Alliance (the Alliance), a global technical association developing solutions to address critical technical challenges in delivering a high-quality video experience at … 2021 Membership Grant Program… Read more »

The International Cinema Technology Association (ICTA), in conjunction Box Office Pro magazine, presented a webinar entitled “Back to the Future – How Drive-Ins and Pop-Up Cinema Complements the Movie Going Experience in the Covid-19 Aftermath.”  Moderated by Frank Tees, VP of ICTA, the group presented five “interviews” describing innovative approaches to exhibiting movies…outdoors.  Yes, ‘Back […] The post Laser Projectors… Read more »

Streaming Video Alliance Hosts East Coast STREAMup 2020 Second Virtual Event in STREAMup Series to Tackle Content Challenges: Acquisition, Delivery, and Visibility   FREMONT, Calif. — September 28, 2020 — The Streaming Video Alliance (the Alliance), a global technical association developing solutions to address critical technical challenges in delivering a high-quality video experience at scale, … East Coast STREAMup 2020… Read more »

Think back to the start of what some refer to as “the COVID-19 era.” It was early 2020 and prep for IETF 107 was in full swing. The wiki for the IETF 107 Hackathon already boasted an exciting list of projects. Read more »

In partnership with Lightwave, the free online event will feature industry-leading experts from end-users, equipment developers and component vendors Fremont, Calif.—September 21, 2020 – Recognizing the high-level of industry interest in co-packaging of optics with ASICs and the need for industry discussion and collaboration, OIF will hold a public webinar “Co-Packaged Optics – Why, What and How” on Wednesday, October 14th… Read more »

We recently ran a survey to understand why people who participated in an IETF meeting in 2018/2019 did not participate in IETF 108 to see if there are any issues that we need to fix. The results are now available and this blog post explains some of the insights in the data. Read more »

This year’s annual European Digital Cinema Forum (EDCF) Meeting -– like so many 2020 annual get togethers, was virtual this year. And LIPA and Lasers were on the program. The post LIPA and Lasers at the EDCF Annual Meeting appeared first on LIPA. Read more »

We often talk about how the Internet evolves. In large part due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the year 2020 represents a situation where in a relatively short time, new user demands caused fairly significant changes in what the Internet was needed for. Read more »

While interoperability testing has been one of the hallmarks of open standards and Internet protocol development for more than three decades, the process itself has been limited by manual and inconsistent testing. Read more »

By Asimakis Kokkos The telecom industry has rallied behind 5G and its promise of 10x faster speeds (10Gbps peak data rates, 100Mbps whenever needed), 10x quicker response times (less than 1ms latency) and ultra-reliability. This July, 3GPP completed its Release 16 specification, marking a significant milestone in expanding 5G capabilities, deployments and use cases. 3GPP Release 16 expands the 5G… Read more »

The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Open Meeting at the IETF 101 in London had a rather curious point on the agenda: “Vision for a QIRG: Quantum Internet Research Group”. With the hype around quantum computing growing every year, it was only natural that some people would start asking whether the Internet could also benefit from the quantum revolution. Read more »

The IETF Administration LLC has reforecast its 2020 budget to address the significant changes in the underlying assumptions since the original budget was created. Read more »

Streaming Video Alliance Launches STREAMup 2020 Series Virtual West Coast Meetup Kicks Off Series Highlighting Best Practices in Device Fragmentation for Streaming Video   FREMONT, Calif. — August 24, 2020 — The Streaming Video Alliance (the Alliance), a global technical association developing solutions to address critical technical challenges in delivering a high-quality video experience at … STREAMup 2020 Series Read… Read more »

Fremont, Calif.—August 26, 2020 – OIF members continued to drive industry interoperability efforts forward during the Q3 2020 Technical and MA&E Committees Meeting, held August 3-7. This quarter’s virtual meeting resulted in the approval of the CEI (Common Electrical I/O) -224G Development Project, a wrap-up of the “Co-packaging of Optics with ASICs” members-only workshop that was held July 20th and… Read more »

Seven of the IRTF research groups and the ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW) met co-located the IETF 108 meeting, and three Applied Networking Research Prizes were awarded. Read more »

IETF 108 was the first-ever online IETF meeting with a full agenda. Read more »

The full results of our post-meeting survey for IETF 108 are now available along with an extended commentary below. Read more »

Around 10 years ago, a number of forward-thinking laser and projection types began to see and believe the promise of Laser Illumination for the next generation of Cinema Projectors. The post Why I Rejoined LIPA appeared first on LIPA. Read more »

The IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) has discussed the issue of competition law several times since we formed and is aware it was the topic of a BoF a few years ago. As a result we felt it was a good time to release this statement. Read more »

The 108th IETF meeting will be held online July 27-31 from 11:00 to 16:00 UTC each day. Read more »

The IETF Administration LLC has now published a set of operational policies and its 2020 Strategic Plan Read more »

Several new working groups are scheduled to meet for the first time during the IETF 108 Online meeting held 27-31 July 2020. Read more »

Three presentations on a wide range of networking research will be featured during the Internet Research Task Force Open session of the IETF 108 Online meeting scheduled for 27-31 July. Read more »

Streaming Video Alliance Announces New Open Caching Technical Specification and First Open Source API Developed in LABS Newly Approved Specification Reflects Ongoing Contributions of Alliance Working Groups to Solve Industry-wide Issues   FREMONT, Calif. — July 1, 2020 — The Streaming Video Alliance (the Alliance), a global technical association developing solutions to address critical technical … New Open Caching Specification… Read more »

Survey to gather industry opinion regarding evolution of optical module management Fremont, Calif.—July 1, 2020 – There is ongoing evolution of form factors and a trend for modules to incorporate data processing and programmable module functions. However, there is increasing consensus that the intrinsic restrictions of throughput and data organization will not scale well into the future. OIF, where the… Read more »

The IETF 108 Online meeting will host three sessions aiming to form new working groups. Read more »

Registration is now open for the Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW) 2020, which will bring together researchers, operators and representatives of the Internet standards community from around the world and is set to take place online during the week of 27-31 July 2020. Read more »

The IETF 108 meeting, hosted by Ericsson, is switching to a fully online meeting over 5 days with an agenda structure similar to that of an in-person meeting. Read more »

The Internet Architecture Board held a virtual retreat in the first week of June, organized in three 1-hour all-IAB sessions and a bunch of break-out sessions distributed over the week. Read more »

Please fill out this form if you’re interested in meeting with the MFA at Smart Production Solutions on November 24-26. The MulteFire Alliance will get in touch with you to set up a meeting.   Notice: JavaScript is required for this content.   Read more »

Almost immediately after the IETF 107 meeting concluded, discussions began about how the experience of participating in IETF meetings online could be improved. Read more »

Interoperability is vital to facilitating operator deployment of SDN and accelerating transport network transformation for the 5G era Fremont, Calif. —June 16, 2020 – Leading the acceleration of the commercialization of transport SDN worldwide and transport network transformation for the 5G era, OIF today announced plans for its 2020 Transport SDN Application Programming Interface (API) interoperability demonstration. The 2020 event… Read more »

UK private LTE provider Quortus targets US and Japan with fresh funding, new portfolio Enterprise IoT Insights, June 4, 2020 Read more »

Fremont, Calif.—June 4, 2020 – OIF’s Q2 2020 Technical and MA&E Committees Meeting, held virtually May 11-15, resulted in a preview of a proposed 224 Gbps project, election results, upcoming webinar announcements and the release of the Integrated Packet Optical SDN Implementation Agreement (IA). NEW PROJECT PREVIEW – 224 Gbps PROJECT START PROPOSAL The next electrical data rate beyond 112… Read more »

By György Wolfner, End-to-End Architecture Working Group Chair When you’re at your local coffee shop or at the airport waiting for your flight, it’s common to want to connect to an on-premises hotspot configured as a neutral host network (NHN). But how can you be sure that the service you’re connecting to is secure and is being delivered by a… Read more »

The online event, in partnership with Lightwave and Electronic Design, will feature a dynamic discussion between end-users, equipment developers and component suppliers Fremont, Calif.—June 1, 2020 – OIF, where the optical networking industry’s interoperability work gets done, will hold a webinar “Cu (see you) Beyond 112 Gbps” on Thursday, June 18th at 7am PDT/9am CDT/10am EDT/4pm CEST. The free webinar,… Read more »

At its meeting last week, the IETF Administration LLC Board of Directors received from external auditors the report of a clean result for its first-ever stand-alone annual financial statement. Read more »

Explaining why we will charge for IETF 108 Online registration and how we set the fees. Read more »

With some preliminary scheduling decisions made for IETF 108, we wanted to explain how our survey data has informed decisionmaking thus far. Read more »

The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), the IETF LLC Board of Directors, and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Chair have decided to replace the in-person IETF 108 Madrid meeting with an online meeting. Read more »

This IETF Annual Report 2019 provides a summary of Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet Architecture Board, Internet Research Task Force, and RFC Editor community activities in 2019. Read more »

The initial results of the survey on planning for possible online IETF meetings are now available. Read more »

Streaming Video Alliance Blasts Into the Realms of Cyberspace for Quarterly Member Meeting During an Unprecedented Time When the Streaming Video Industry is Forced to Scale, Alliance Members Gather Online to Address Some of the Industry’s Biggest Challenges   FREMONT, Calif., May 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The Streaming Video Alliance (the Alliance), a global technical … Streaming Video Alliance Q2… Read more »

Home Share this page: Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Share on print Q2 Virtual Meeting Guide This guide provides information and a short set of actions for participants before joining a session at the Streaming Video Alliance Q2 Virtual Meeting. Register for the meeting Set up Zoom Install … 2020 Q2 Virtual Meeting… Read more »

Spec addresses 400ZR multi-vendor interoperability required for cloud scale data center interconnect (DCI) Fremont, Calif.—April 29, 2020 – OIF, where the optical networking industry’s interoperability work gets done, today announced it has published the Implementation Agreement (IA) for a 400ZR coherent optical interface. The document is available now for all to download. This IA, the first OIF project with a… Read more »

Support of the premier Internet standards development organization includes hosting three future meetings Read more »

As set out in our recent email and blog post, we have developed an assessment framework and decision making process for the decision on whether or not the in-person IETF 108 Madrid can go ahead. The proposed framework and process is detailed below and we welcome community feedback. Read more »

While email and calendaring are well-established Internet applications used by billions of people around the world, there is tons of work going on at the IETF right now to maintain and improve the protocols used by client applications to access email and related data from servers and cloud services. Read more »

IETF 108 is scheduled to be held 25-31 July 2020 in Madrid, Spain. However, based on current conditions in Spain and around the world, we are actively planning for a virtual version of the IETF 108 meeting. Read more »

Last week the IETF held its first-ever all-virtual meeting in light of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »

The 2020-2021 IESG and IAB were officially seated as more than 1000 leading technologists were set to join the first-ever virtual Internet Engineering Task Force meeting Read more »

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What We Know About Streaming Behavior Although we like to think of streaming and broadcast as very different, they aren’t really. Viewer behavior is relatively the same: most people watch video, whether streaming or from their cable provider, when they are at home. Yes, there are exceptions to that. Younger viewers probably watch short form … Forced to Scale: Advice… Read more »

Keeping you updated about our activities! VRIF newsletters highlight our current work and focus on areas that are most critical. Read the latest edition.   Read more »

Following the announcement by the IESG and the IRTF Chair that the in-person IETF 107 Vancouver meeting is being cancelled, this is an update on various financial and administrative details. Read more »

The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Chair have decided to cancel the in-person IETF 107 Vancouver meeting. This decision is based on input we gathered from Working Group (WG) and Research Group (RG) chairs about our ability to hold productive WG and RG sessions at IETF 107. Read more »

This is a further update, as of 4 March 2020, on IETF 107 Vancouver and the ongoing situation with COVID-19 (Coronavirus). Read more »

Initial release is focused on supporting 400ZR Fremont, Calif.—March 3, 2020 – OIF, where the optical networking industry’s interoperability work gets done, today announced the completion of the Coherent Common Management Interface Specification (C-CMIS) Implementation Agreement (IA). This IA serves as an extension to the CMIS (QSFP-DD/OSFP/COBO) management specification, specifically targeting DCO modules. “The C-CMIS IA is an important part… Read more »

As IETF 107 Vancouver approaches we thought it would be useful to update you on our planning around COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and the potential impact on this meeting. Read more »

For IETF 108 Madrid we will be introducing childcare for the first time at an IETF meeting to see how it goes. Read more »

The IETF 107 meeting in Vancouver taking place March 21-27 will host four sessions aiming to form new working groups. Read more »

Interoperability demos on 400ZR, CEI-112G, FlexE and IC-TROSA; OIF experts to lead panel discussions and OIF to Host “Cu (see you) Beyond 112 Gbps” Workshop Fremont, Calif.—February 18, 2020 – OIF will host one of the largest interoperability demos in its history reflecting the ongoing significance of OIF’s work in addressing global network challenges. Twenty industry-leading system vendors, component vendors… Read more »

The IETF LLC Board met for a two-day face-to-face retreat on 29-30 January 2020 in Washington, D.C. I wanted to take this opportunity to give a quick update to the IETF community. Read more »

A Critical Step For the Streaming Video Alliance Viasat, a Streaming Video Alliance member company, announced today that they have partnered with FuboTV, a leading live streaming content provider, to bring their sports, news, and entertainment content to in-flight passengers at no charge. In order to scale this offering and deliver a high-quality viewing experience … Viasat Brings Streaming Video… Read more »

I am pleased to announce that Greg Wood will be joining the IETF LLC as Director of Communications and Operations beginning February 1, 2020. Read more »

The IETF Administration LLC has finalised its 2020 budget following a community consultation. Read more »

Providers of voice over IP in the United States will be required to implement the IETF’s Secure Telephony Identity Revisited (STIR) protocol as a result of recently enacted legislation to address some of the root causes of illegal robocalling on the telephone network. Read more »

Just over a year after it was published as an RFC, TLS 1.3 adoption is growing rapidly. Read more »

At the end of November the IETF community gathered in Singapore for its 106th meeting. Across all six of the IETF’s technical areas, we saw constructive discussions of new work proposals, existing working groups progressing towards major milestones, and mature working groups wrapping up their final work items before closing. Here is a taste of what happened in each area. Read more »

The IETF Network Operations Center (NOC) team takes on the large task to build each meetings network. Monitoring the network once it is built is important. The NOC uses a number of tools and one of those tools is a number of Raspberry Pis. Read more »

Looking ahead to IETF 106 taking place 16-22 November 2019 in Singapore? Here are a few final items to consider before the meeting starts. Read more »

The IETF Administration LLC has drafted the 2020 Budget under the guidance of its first permanent board. Careful consideration has been provided to each budget request as well as the needs of the Community as a whole. Read more »

One of our key work items, developing policies for the IETF LLC, is now complete. Read more »

The IESG held a second retreat in 2019 to focus on strategic objectives. Read more »

One of the most critical tasks facing the inaugural IETF LLC Board this year was to hire a permanent IETF Executive Director. Read more »