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PISCATAWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) today announced 28 companies and laboratories that participate in the IEEE P1904.1TM Working Group have achieved an important milestone in the development of the IEEE P1904.1 Service Interoperability in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (SIEPON) standard. This draft standard is largely complete from a technical perspective and has entered the IEEE P1904.1 Working Group letter ballot phase. The IEEE P1904.1 Working Group began its work in January 2010 and reached this important milestone after 20...

U.K. set-top box vendor Pace has become the first STB supplier to have a product certified by the RVU Alliance to work in an RVU-based whole-home, client-server architecture. The certification means that the Pace box, the vendor's C30 set-top unit, supports the RVU Alliance's remote user interface protocol, which stems from the Digital Living Network Alliance and supports remote content distribution over a home network.

The Pace C30 set-top box is the first device to go through the RVU Alliance certification program, which is run by the independent University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory. The certification marks a major milestone in the development of whole home client/server technology for the U.S. payTV industry, and in the adoption of the RVU standard.

The Ethernet Alliance announces its successful Energy Efficient Ethernet subcommittee interoperability plugfest for products designed to support IEEE Std. 802.3azTM?2010 Energy Efficient Ethernet. There were six Ethernet Alliance members including Broadcom Corporation, Intel, LSI, Marvell Technology Group Ltd., Qualcomm Atheros and Vitesse Semiconductor. These companies gathered at the UNH-IOL, the Interoperability Lab at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham, New Hampshire during the week of August 8th, 2011 to verify interoperability of EEE devices that support the 100BASE-TX and...