IEEE has formally approved a committee P802.3ba to work on the 40G and 100G high speed Ethernet standards.

In the NxtComm08 ended on June 19, the key words are green, mobility, broadband and multimedia services.

Green: Vendors are building energy saving into every device and service providers are taking energy consumption in their business into matrix.

Mobility: Most innovations are still in this category. WiMax will be deployed in a big way in the US and other parts of the world.

Broadband: Services providers are continuing their investment to push fiber into last mile

Asia: Malaysia to get high-speed broadband at investment of USD 4.5 billion The Malaysian government is embarking on an ambitious plan to roll out high-speed broadban services in the country, at an estimated cost of USD 4.5 billion over 10 years. The aim is to reach a broadband penetration of 50 percent of households by 2010 (which is lower than the earlier estimate of 75%, given the slower pace of broadband deployment so far).

4G describes the technologies beyond 3G mobile wireless.

With a new wave of deployment of WiMAX infrastractures worldwide, we can see that the big time for WiMAX is coming, for real. Most announced deployment of WiMAX projects are in Asia such as Taiwan and India, the so called green fields, where the latest technologies are welcome.