This week, we learned that the Energy Efficient Ethernet IEEE
802.3az Standard won the Best Electronic Design award for 2010
in the Communications – Wired category. We celebrate this honor
along with the contributions of the highly dedicated volunteer
participants who labored on the development this Standard.
Specifically, we congratulate the 802.3 Ethernet Working Group
and its Chair, Micheal J. Bennett, the Group’s Sponsor, the IEEE
Computing Society and the LAN/MAN Standards Committee. The IEEE
802.3az standard was approved 30 September 2010. It provides
network managers and everyday consumers of networking services
with the tools they need to reduce energy consumption in
network-attached devices, network routers and switches,
computers, and printers. Ethernet is the dominant network
technology in the world today, with billions of interfaces
deployed. It is a critical component in environments ranging
from high-performance links at the Internet core to home
entertainment networks. In the Networking industr