Networking standards

Abstract

The article in this special section focus on the market for new networking technologies. Networking technologies are advancing faster than ever before. Aspects driving this change in velocity is the need to support faster, more reliable, ubiquitous services with an ever-increasing scale over the communications infrastructure. This is causing a shift from traditional standards development to a hybrid approach that includes open-source development techniques, tooling, and full lifecycle management. Keeping pace with the changes to the standards ecosystem and evolution of the way networks are built and deployed is challenging. Additionally, the Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the main drivers which, on the one hand, increases the number of connected communicative components, and on the other hand pushes the development of a huge amount of standards.