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Revision as of 07:27, 28 October 2020

The IEEE 802.3 Working Group develops standards for Ethernet. 802.1 develops networking best practices. 802.11 handles WiFi. Their WG web pages are ugly.

Ones worth knowing include:

Standard Year Common name Topic
802.1d 1990, 1998, 2004 Bridges Bridging and spanning trees
802.1d-2004 incorporates 802.1w
802.1q 1998, 2003, 2014, 2018 VLANs Virtual LANs
802.1q-2014 incorporates 802.1aq
802.1w 2001 RSTP Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
802.1aq 2012 SPB Shortest path bridging
802.16 2001 WirelessMAN/WiMAX Fixed Broadband Wireless Access (10--66GHz)
802.3ad 2000 Link aggregation L2 port trunking
802.3ax 2008 Link aggregation Became 802.1ax
802.3by 2016 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T 2.5/5 Gigabit Ethernet over Cat-5/Cat-6 twisted pair