Ethernet's High-Wire Act

by Steven Cherry IEEE Spectrum Online, April 2005 The April issue of IEEE Spectrum discusses the need for a new standard to ensure quality of service for time-critical applications across the television. The article examines how the IEEE 802.1ah study group is working to fill this need and develop a standard that could ensure the high quality of service needed to transmit streaming multimedia over a wide-area Ethernet network that covers an entire city. Read the article