Networking and Telecom Standards
19 standards in networking and telecom, listed alphabetically with issuing body and first publication year.
5G NR
Fifth Generation New Radio, frozen in 3GPP Release 15, launched commercially in 2019. It adds spectrum up to millimeter wave...
BGP
Border Gateway Protocol, first published as RFC 1105 in 1989, is how autonomous systems exchange routing information, making it...
Bluetooth
The short range 2.4 gigahertz radio standard begun at Ericsson in 1989 and formalized by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group...
DNS
The Domain Name System, defined in RFC 1034 and 1035 by Paul Mockapetris, translates names like example.com into IP addresses...
GSM
Global System for Mobile Communications, specified by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, launched the digital...
HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol, devised by Tim Berners-Lee around 1990, moves web resources between browsers and servers. HTTP/1.1...
IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi
The wireless LAN family first standardized in 1997 at 2 megabits per second. Successive amendments raised speeds, from 802.11b to...
IEEE 802.15.4
The IEEE standard for low rate wireless personal area networks, first published in 2003. It defines a power sipping physical...
IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
Ethernet began as the experimental 1973 system at Xerox PARC by Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs, was standardized as IEEE 802.3...
IPv4
Internet Protocol version 4, defined in RFC 791 in 1981, has a 32 bit address space of about 4.3 billion addresses. The central...
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6 expands addressing to 128 bits, providing roughly 340 undecillion addresses. Standardized through RFC...
ITU-T T.30 Fax
The ITU recommendation that defines the handshake of Group 3 fax over telephone lines. It negotiated page size, transmission...
LTE
Long Term Evolution, specified in 3GPP Release 8, brought mobile broadband with all IP architecture and orthogonal frequency...
MQTT
Message Queuing Telemetry Transport began at IBM in 1999 to monitor oil pipelines and became ISO/IEC 20922 in 2016. Its...
QUIC
The transport protocol Google began deploying inside HTTPS in 2013 and brought to the IETF, published as RFC 9000 in 2021. QUIC...
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, from RFC 821, routes email across the internet. Extensions added authentication, size limits and...
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol, specified in RFC 793 with Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn as architects, provides reliable ordered delivery...
TLS 1.3
Transport Layer Security encrypts internet connections, descending from the SSL protocol Netscape shipped in 1995. TLS 1.3...
WebSocket
The protocol that upgrades an HTTP connection into a persistent two way channel, standardized as RFC 6455 in 2011 after years of...