IEEE 1904.1 Working Group had its first organizational meeting on February 8-10, 2010, hosted by IEEE SA in Piscataway, NJ.
The following entities have participated as full voting members:
- Alcatel-Lucent
- ARRIS
- Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs)
- China Telecommunications Corporation
- Cortina
- Enablence Systems
- FiberHome Technologies
- Fujitsu Telecom Networks, Ltd.
- Hitachi Communications
- Huawei Technologies
- Ikanos Communications
- Iometrix
- KT
- Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- NTT Corporation.
- Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
- PMC-Sierra, Inc.
- Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.
- Teknovus, Inc.
- TM R&D Sdn Bhd
- University of New Hampshire-IOL
- Victor Blake
- ZTE Corporation
Seiji Kozaki of Mitsubishi Corporation was appointed the Election Processor and the officers’ election process is currently underway. The working group has reaffirmed the temporary appointments of the following officers:
- Vice-Chair: Duane Remein, FiberHome Technologies
- Executive Secretary: Ken-Ichi Suzuki, NTT Corporation
- Chief Editor: Marek Hajduczenia, ZTE Corporation
The working group has spent significant time discussing and refining Working Group Policies and Procedures and Operations Manual. As part of this discussion, the WG has considered and approved a motion to accept the IEEE-SA Project Acceleration Package. The motion passed with 13 in favor, 0 against, and 9 abstentions.
The Policies and procedures and Operations Manual were then approved by a single motion with 20 in favor, 0 against, and 2 abstentions. The approved versions of these documents are available here:
On the second day of meeting, the Working Group began technical discussions. The group has reviewed 12 presentations proposing various features for inclusion into the WG’s work plan. As a result of this discussion, the following four task forces were created:
| Task Force |
Service Configuration and Provisioning |
Performance Requirements and Service Quality |
Service Survivability |
System and Device Management |
| Focus |
Non-real-time features that affect connectivity, frame classification and manipulation, forwarding rules, etc. |
Requirements and features that affect service performance, i.e., real-time control mechanisms for delay, jitter, packet loss, bandwidth guarantees, etc. |
Features that affect availability of services: protection, restoration, etc; |
Features that are required to operate EPON as a managed public network. |
| Chair |
Lior Khermosh,
PMC-Sierra, Inc. |
Curtis Knittle,
Cablelabs |
Seiji Kozaki,
Mitsubishi Electric |
Mike Emmendorfer,
ARRIS |
| Editor |
Alan M. Brown,
Enablence Systems |
Jeff Stribling,
Hitachi |
Jeff Lapak,
UNH-IOL |
Fumio Daido,
Sumitomo Electric Industries, LTD |
A more detailed record is available in the meeting minutes (access restricted to WG members only). Our next meeting is planned for April 14-16 in Shanghai, PRC.
