Medicaid managed care network adequacy standards exhibit significant heterogeneity across regions and specialties, potentially creating large variations in health care access and quality. Objectives: ...

Once upon a time, standards were our friends. They provided industry-accepted blueprints for building homogeneous infrastructures that were reliably interoperable. Company A could confidently build an ...

The last newsletter began to address the topic of what is a standard and used the Bell System and IBM’s SNA as examples of standards that came to life without a standards committee. This newsletter ...

Several important new standards for optical networking were adopted by the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in November. The new standards provide the ability to combine ...

Looking over the landscape of recent blog posts on open social networking, it's clear that folks are interested in connecting together some of their disparate accounts on a wide range of social ...

Industry groups backing competing wireless standards have admitted that they must start cooperating more for users' sake The proliferation of competing wireless standards risks confusing technology ...

I’m amused at how often I hear negative comments about proprietary enhancements from Cisco. I am one of many (many, many, many) employees of Cisco who is actively involved in standards body ...

JULY 10, 2023– Since the mid to late 80s, cabling standards have been constantly evolving. Understanding the key performance differences of each new iteration can be confusing. To help bring clarity ...

Wireless networking is part of the furniture these days, but the zoo of standards still baffles the non-specialist. This can in part be put down to the 802.11 wireless LAN working group, which has 250 ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. The market for in-vehicle communications network technology looks neat and tidy — from a distance. Controller area network (CAN) handles most of the ...

If you are a networking manager in a multinational based in the U.S. that is trying to standardize on networking technologies companywide, you could probably use a little more homogeneity among ...