Supposedly, 2015 has been a busy year for Enya. However, we do not have any detailed information on what Enya is doing these days.
The National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) recently published NECA-BICSI-607-2011, Standard for Telecommunications Bonding and Grounding Planning and Installation Methods for Commercial Buildings (ANSI). The new standard was jointly developed between NECA and Building Industry Consulting Service International (BICSI).
An example of a formal standard is the 802 network standards created by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The 802 standards are a family of standards for local area networks that concern mainly the physical layer and data link layer in the Open System Interconnection (OSI) model. Remember, we explored the OSI model in a previous lesson. Now that we have discussed standards, let's explore protocols. A protocol is a set of rules that define how two devices communicate with each other over a computer network. There are many different types of computers and equipment that use varying communication procedures.