Raising COMSOC standards activities to new heights [President´s Page]

Standards play increasingly greater role in communications industry. As the technology progresses and silicon allows more flexibility the need for more standards grows as well. A simple illustration is this: while a ??hard wired?? physical layer in a mobile wireless device requires only one standard, a flexible solution based on cognitive or software defined radio requires as minimum additional, configuration management and secure download, standards for the same physical layer to operate.