Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,August 1999,Slide,*,doc.:IEEE 802.15-99011r3,Submission,Consolidating Standards to Enable Economies of Scale,Tom SiepMember Group Technical Staff,Texas Instruments,siepti,August 1999,1,Overview,The Standards Process for IEEE 802,Why Different Standards Exist,Levels of Compatibility,IEEE 802.15 WPAN Charter,Benefits of Commonality,August 1999,2,The Standards Process,Telecommunications Standards,Why Standards Are Important,How IEEE 802 Establishes a Standard,August 1999,3,Telecommunications Standards,Must define aspects of two devices,the transmitter and the receiver.,A transmitter without compatible receiver does not communicate.,Telecommunications standards define compatibility,not sameness.,August 1999,4,Why Standards Are Important,To Users,Provides an open forum for discussion and development,Allows multiple vendors to offer compatible hardware,To the Industry in General,Seeds Development of Technology,Supports Interoperability of Multiple Vendors,Speeds Market Acceptance,To Semiconductor Suppliers,Ensure technology is optimized for function,Meet with Industry Technology Leaders,Can provide common base for multiple standards,August 1999,5,IEEE Interfaces,August 1999,6,How IEEE 802 Establishes a Standard,August 1999,7,Bluetooth and IEEE 802,August 1999,8,Why Different Standards Exist,Regional,Special Purpose,Just Because,August 1999,9,Levels of Compatibility,The Wireless Example,August 1999,10,IEEE 802.15 Charter,Build on emerging industry specifications,Provide an open forum to debate these proposals,Identify substantive issues,Build consensus on solutions,Goal is to create standards that have,broad market applicability,deal with the issues of coexistence and interoperability,widely used,The IEEE P802.15 WPAN Working Group is chartered with developing Personal Area Network standards for,short distance wireless networks,.,August 1999,11,Possible Coalescence of Standards,August 1999,12,Benefits of Commonality,Cooperation by“expert participants in industry,Peer review enables rapid development of new ideas,Supports Interoperability of Multiple Vendors,Multiple vendors able to participate and compete,Semiconductor technology is optimized for function,Semiconductor road maps feed into standards process,Economies of Scale become realizable,August 1999,13,IEEE 802.15 Meetings,Become part of the process!,Voting rights are accrued by those who participate in the meetings.,IEEE 802.15(and IEEE 802.11)Interim meeting the week of September 13-15 at:Hilton Hotel,Sonoma County in Santa Rosa,California :/grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/15/index.html,IEEE 802 LMSC Plenary meeting the week of November 8-12,1999 at:Hyatt Regency Kauai Resort&Spa in Koloa,Hawaii :/grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/meeting/index.html,August 1999,14,Questions?,Tom Siep,siepti,August 1999,15,Another Version of“The Briefcase Trick,August 1999,16,