doc.: IEEE Submission June 1999 Tom Siep, Texas InstrumentsSlide 1 Consolidating Standards to Enable Economies of Scale Tom Siep Member Group Technical Staff Texas Instruments

doc.: IEEE Submission June 1999 Tom Siep, Texas InstrumentsSlide 2 Overview The Standards Process for IEEE 802 Why Different Standards Exist Levels of Compatibility IEEE WPAN Charter Benefits of Commonality

doc.: IEEE Submission June 1999 Tom Siep, Texas InstrumentsSlide 3 The Standards Process Telecommunications Standards Why Standards Are Important Standards Bodies How IEEE 802 Establishes a Standard

doc.: IEEE Submission June 1999 Tom Siep, Texas InstrumentsSlide 4 Telecommunications Standards Must define aspects of two devices, the transmitter and the receiver. A transmitter without compatible receiver does not communicate. Telecommunications standards define compatibility, not sameness.

doc.: IEEE Submission June 1999 Tom Siep, Texas InstrumentsSlide 5 Why Standards Are Important To Users –Provides an open forum for discussion and development –Allows multiple vendors to offer compatible hardware To the Industry in General –Seeds Development of Technology –Supports Interoperability of Multiple Vendors –Speeds Market Acceptance To Semiconductor Suppliers –Ensure technology is optimized for function –Meet with Industry Technology Leaders –Can provide common base for multiple standards

doc.: IEEE Submission June 1999 Tom Siep, Texas InstrumentsSlide 6 World-Wide Standards Bodies ITU (International Telecommunication Union) –ITU-T (Telecommunication Sector) –TSAG (Telecommunication Standards Advisory Group) –ITU-R (Radiocommunication Sector) –ITU-D (Telecommunication Development Sector) GSC (Global Standards Collaboration) RAST (Global Radio Standardization) IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) ISO (International Organization for Standarddization) ISO and IEC jointly manage: –JTC1 (ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee - Information technology)

doc.: IEEE Submission June 1999 Tom Siep, Texas InstrumentsSlide 7 IEEE Interfaces

doc.: IEEE Submission June 1999 Tom Siep, Texas InstrumentsSlide 8 How IEEE 802 Establishes a Standard

doc.: IEEE Submission June 1999 Tom Siep, Texas InstrumentsSlide 9 Bluetooth, ISO, and IEEE 802

doc.: IEEE Submission June 1999 Tom Siep, Texas InstrumentsSlide 10 Why Different Standards Exist Regional Special Purpose Just Because

doc.: IEEE Submission June 1999 Tom Siep, Texas InstrumentsSlide 11 Levels of Compatibility The Wireless Example

doc.: IEEE Submission June 1999 Tom Siep, Texas InstrumentsSlide 12 IEEE Charter Build on emerging industry specifications Provide an open forum to debate these proposals Identify substantive issues Build consensus on solutions Goal is to create standards that have –broad market applicability –deal with the issues of coexistence and interoperability –widely used The IEEE P WPAN Working Group is chartered with developing Personal Area Network standards for short distance wireless networks.

doc.: IEEE Submission June 1999 Tom Siep, Texas InstrumentsSlide 13 Possible Coalescence of Standards

doc.: IEEE Submission June 1999 Tom Siep, Texas InstrumentsSlide 14 Benefits of Commonality Cooperation by “expert” participants in industry Peer review enables rapid development of new ideas Supports Interoperability of Multiple Vendors Multiple vendors able to participate and compete Semiconductor technology is optimized for function Semiconductor road maps feed into standards process Economies of Scale become realizable

doc.: IEEE Submission June 1999 Tom Siep, Texas InstrumentsSlide 15 IEEE Meeting In Montreal Become part of the process! For this (the first) meeting only -- voting rights are automatic for those who participate. IEEE 802 LMSC Plenary meeting the week of July 5-9, 1999 at: Queen Elizabeth Hotel 900 Rene-Levesque Blvd West Montreal, PQ H3B 4A5 CANADA Reservations: (800) Phone: (514) Fax: (514)