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Unknown to most laypersons and the fodder for jokes among telecom insiders, standards are more than just acronyms and geek speak. They enable interoperability, improve security, increase the speed of networking, spawn innovation, and accelerate the development of new markets.... More Info

In the European Union, 112 eCall, which automatically alerts emergency assistance when an accident has occurred, will be mandatory in all new cars and light trucks by October 2015. Regardless of whether a vehicle’s driver and/or passengers are conscious or alert, emergency crews will know the location of the accident in an instant, which the European Commission has forecasted could prevent 2,500 deaths each year.... More Info

The connected-home landscape is continually broadening and evolving, and having consistent, reliable communication is critical to smart-grid operations for the home. Making the grid into a smart grid is one of several interrelated evolutionary steps occurring in the field of grid communications; it enables service providers and utilities to better manage their resources and proactively handle problem avoidance and resolution while providing advanced services to the home.... More Info

Ericsson’s vision of “the Networked Society” predicts that 50 billion devices will be connected via broadband, mobility and the cloud by 2020, and that more than 15 billion of those devices will be enabled for video. It also expects 90 percent of the traffic on global IP networks to be video by as early as 2015.... More Info

Unfortunately for the engineers tasked with refining the rules that govern telecommunications, standards aren’t as sexy as the smartphones they empower. And yet telecommunications standards are the silent enablers that make our modern connected world possible.... More Info