Historic IEEE 802 Group Looks Back and Forward

An anonymous reader writes "The IEEE MAN/LAN Standards Committee — better known as the people who brought us Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth — is celebrating its 30th anniversary next week. This article has interviews with the original committee chairman and other veteran members, and reveals some of the inside situation. It also looks at some of the upcoming 802.x standards including one that sends data by modulating visible light."

Re:Upcoming?

[fan777]

I think the summary is talking about lighthouses.

Re:Upcoming?

[peragrin]

true but this is for wireless light transmission. You see IEEE has been watching old sci fi series and thought they needed more blinking lights in the real future. So each one of those blinky lights is in reality an active data connection for some device.

Re:Also coming up this year...

[Mikkeles]

So, in this case, one can actually Blame Canada, eh?