Why isoEthernet will change the voice and video worlds

The answers to many of the communications problems businesses face lie in the integration of telephony, data collaboration, and video communications with the desktop computer, doing it inexpensively, doing it seamlessly with the local area and wide area networks. The adoption of isochronous Ethernet (isoEthernet) by the IEEE 802.9 committee as the new multimedia standard in LANs has given rise to new technology that converges voice, collaborative video, and data at the desktop. The official name for isoEthernet is ISLAN16-T, and it is sponsored by the IEEE 802.9 committee. IEEE 802.9a, the document specifying the isoEthernet standard, became an official standard at the end of 1995. The intent behind the ISLAN16-T standard is to define a LAN transport capable of handling synchronous services such as voice and video while retaining compatibility with 10Base-T. ISLAN16-T opens the door to a multitude of new applications that can reshape work and communications habits to make businesses more productive, responsive, and profitable.