“Thousands of individuals throughout the Ethernet ecosystem have participated in the development of IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard over the last 30 years,” said David Law, chair of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group and distinguished engineer with HP Networking. “The spectrum of stakeholders in the standard’s success is global and diverse, from individuals employed by manufacturers, to individuals employed by users, to individuals in academia, to name just a very few examples. The efforts of all of them have contributed to the standard’s amazing success.”

Added Paul Nikolich, chair of the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee and IEEE fellow: “The fact that almost all information flowing in the Internet is possible because it is transported over a flexible IEEE 802.3 Ethernet-compliant infrastructure is a tribute everyone who has in some way contributed to the standard's development, refinement and expansion. Throughout its history, the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group has reacted well to emerging global market needs. I applaud the effort of the thousands of individuals who have contributed through the working group and to the development process itself.”

Innovation of IEEE 802.3 Ethernet is incessant. Frontiers of development for the standard address market needs such as reducing the number of wire pairs required to deliver Gigabit Ethernet for in-vehicle networking and infotainment, energy efficiency and power over Ethernet. Ethernet underpins the Internet, Wi-Fi, Big Data, cloud computing, the smart grid, computer gaming, eHealth, industrial automation and numerous other high-tech applications. Also, IEEE in April 2013 announced the launch of an IEEE 802.3 study group to explore development of a 400 Gb/s Ethernet standard to efficiently support exponential network bandwidth growth.

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