Dear SEC members,
This is a 10 day SEC email
ballot to make a determination by EC motion to approve the below 802.11g Press
Release. Please note I have placed a modifier on the closing time
of the ballot such that it may close no later than 10 days
after the start of the email ballot or as soon 24 hours
after every member of the EC casts a definitive ballot (APP, DIS or
ABS). The reason for the modifier is to allow the press release, if
it is approved, to be issued as quickly as possible.
Motion
The LMSC executive committee
approval of the below 802.11g Award press
release.
Moved by Stuart
Kerry
Seconded by Bob Heile
The email ballot opens on Monday
Nov 24 6PM EST and closes the sooner of Thursday Dec 4 6PM EST
or 24 hours after every member of the EC has cast a ballot, whichever comes
first.
Please direct your responses to the EC reflector with a CC
directly to me
(p.nikolich@ieee.org).
Regards,
- Paul Nikolich
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 5:11 PM
Subject: 802.11g Award for Technical Excellence Press Release
Motion
Paul,
This is the press release motion I would like to put to
the 802 EC for consideration and approval under our LMSC P&P.
I will Move, and Bob Heile will
second.
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Dear 802 EC Members,
I have great pleasure to inform you all that 802.11 WG
has won a second prestigious award from PC Magazine.
The 20th Annual Awards for Technical
Excellence
By the Editors of PC Magazine
November 18,
2003
I am very pleased to announce that the
IEEE 802.11 Working Group and the Wi-Fi Alliance have jointly been awarded the
PC Magazine 2003 award for Technical Excellence in the Protocol section for
the 802.11gTM amendment, on
Monday night at the Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, NV ceremony. Stuart J. Kerry
(IEEE 802.11 Chair) and Frank Hanzlik (Managing Director of Wi-Fi Alliance)
were present to accept the award on behalf of our members. The other two
finalist in our category were Serial ATA and WS-I Basic Profile.
We
were in very good company during this ceremony, as other awards were presented
for "Person of the Year" - Carly Fiorina (HP) and "Lifetime Achievement" -
Scott Cook (Intuit) amongst others.
Protocols
Winner: IEEE 802.11 Working
Group and the Wi-Fi Alliance
"The IEEE's 802.11g standard
defines the way wireless LAN gear communicates at up to 54 megabits per second
while remaining backward-compatible with 11-Mbps 802.11b. This important
breakthrough enables streaming media, video downloads, and a greater
concentration of users without interference. In addition to technical hurdles,
the standards group had to overcome commercial rivalries and FCC rule changes
to enact the standard."
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Press Release for
EC Motion approval, that has been worked on by IEEE, Paul Nikolich, and
myself. We believe that this event merits a press release, and therefore
present the text of the Draft release below:
DRAFT PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Stuart J.
Kerry, IEEE 802.11 Working Group Chair
+1 408 991
4854, stuart.kerry@philips.com
or
Karen McCabe, IEEE Senior Marketing Manager
+1 732-562-3824, k.mccabe@ieee.org
HIGHER-SPEED IEEE
WIRELESS LAN PROTOCOL WINS
PC MAGAZINE AWARD FOR TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE
PISCATAWAY,
N.J., USA, __ Nov. 2003 – The IEEE 802.11g™ standard for higher-speed
wireless transmission in local area networks (LANs) has won the Protocol
Category in PC Magazine's 20th Annual Awards for Technical Excellence
competition. This standard was selected over two other finalists in the
same category: Serial ATA for storage devices and WS-I Basic Profile for
interoperable web services.
PC Magazine chose IEEE's 802.11g because it "defines the way wireless
LAN gear communicates at up to 54 megabits per second while remaining
backward-compatible with 11-Mbps 802.11b™. This important breakthrough
enables streaming media, video downloads, and a greater concentration of users
without interference."
Stuart
J. Kerry, Chair of the IEEE 802.11™ Working Group for Wireless LANs, who
accepted the award for the IEEE at a ceremony at the Comdex trade show in Las
Vegas, said: "This award is all the more important to me because I know
how technically astute the editors of PC Magazine are. It's also
significant that this is the second time an 802.11 standard has won this
prestigious award. We received the first one for IEEE 802.11b-1999."
PC Magazine's annual technical excellence awards recognize "the
products and technologies that moved the state of the art forward, those that
broke new ground." Winners of the current awards were selected by the
magazine's editorial and laboratory staff from products and protocols that
became available between September 2002 and September 2003.
"This award provides additional recognition of
the IEEE 802.11 working group as the preeminent wireless LAN standards
development organization," said Paul Nikolich, Chair of the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN
Standards Committee. The IEEE 802.11 working group is part of this
committee.
The IEEE 802.11g
amendment, which raised the data rate of IEEE 802.11b networks to 54 Mbps from
11 Mbps, was released in June 2003. The Wi-Fi Alliance then created an
interoperability certification testing program for products based on the
standard. These products have proven highly successful in the global
wireless LAN market.
The
transmission speed added by IEEE 802.11g gives wireless networks the ability
to serve up to four to five times more users than they could with IEEE
802.11b. This has opened possibilities for the use of IEEE 802.11
networks in more demanding applications, such as wireless multimedia video
transmission and broadcast MPEG.
IEEE 802.11g units are able to fall back to speeds of 11 Mbps, so IEEE
802.11b and IEEE 802.11g devices can coexist in the same network. Both
standards apply to the 2.4 GHz frequency band.
IEEE 802.11 standards form a family of
specifications that define how WLAN equipment should be produced so equipment
from different manufacturers can work together. IEEE 802.11g, "Higher Speed
Physical Layer (PHY) Extension to IEEE 802.11b," was developed by the IEEE
802.11 Working Group, which is sponsored by the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN
Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society. For further
information, visit: http://www.ieee802.org/.
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These standards set specifications and procedures based on current
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/ Stuart
_______________________________
Stuart J. Kerry
Chair, IEEE
802.11 WLANs WG
Philips Semiconductors, Inc.
1109 McKay Drive, M/S
48A SJ,
San Jose, CA 95131-1706,
United States of America.
Ph
: +1 (408) 474-7356
Fax: +1 (408) 474-7247
Cell: +1 (408) 348-3171
eMail:
stuart.kerry@philips.com
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