Re: FOR UPDATE & CLARIFICATION: RE: [802SEC] +++EC Motion+++ Motion to approve a Press Release for the 802.11g Award for Technical Excellence
Stuart-
This is the text expected by my previously submitted approval
Geoff
At 01:19 PM 11/26/2003 -0800, stuart.kerry@philips.com wrote:
802 EC Members,
I thank all members and especially Bob Grow & Geoff
Thompson with their amendments to the Press Release for the 802.11g Award
for Technical Excellence 802 EC Motion.
To clarify all the email threads into one, and with
acceptance of the amendments by the mover and seconder, the current press
release that we are voting on, reads as follows:
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."
"REVISED
TEXT INCORPORATED"
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 us
because we 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.
"REVISED
TEXT INCORPORATED"
"This award
provides additional recognition of IEEE 802 as the preeminent LAN
standards development organization," said Paul Nikolich, Chair of
the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee, "and especially as
recognition of the dedicated contributors to the IEEE 802.11g
standard."
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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/ Stuart
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Stuart J. Kerry
Chair, IEEE 802.11 WLANs WG
Philips Semiconductors, Inc.
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