Background Information

US Immigration and Visas

http://travel.state.gov
http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/index.htm
http://usembassy.state.gov

Newsgroups, Support Organisations

http://www.isn.org
http://www.deja.com/group/alt.visa.us
California Service Center I-485 processing times survey results: http://www.idk.com/~ciba/WebCSC.htm

Immigration Lawyer Firms Websites

Automotive

Motorola:

Intelligent Transportation Systems

?ATIS - Advanced Traveler Information Systems,? ?AVCS - Advanced Vehicle Control Systems?

Access ITSAmerica: Intelligent Transportation Society of America; Important: there are two areasat this site, ?Public Access? and ?Member Access.? If your organizationis a member of ITS America, you can obtain a password online through Password Registration on the home page, or call Dee Hamill at ITS America +1202 484 4548.
ComCARE: An industry association devoted to early medicalcare and response to highway accidents emphasizing a complete end-to-endcommunications solution for public safety needs.
FMnet: FMnet is an SAE-sponsored trade associationfor the promotion of SubCarrier information such as ITS ATIS traffic data.
ITS Online: The Independent Forum for Intelligent TransportationSystems
NAHSC: National Automated Highway System Consortium
NationalITS Architecture Browsing Site: A site maintained by Rockwell that allowsyou to hyperlink your way through the National ITS Architecture
NavigationTechnologies: Get driving instructions from anywhere toanywhere (well almost anywhere)
The NTCIP: National Transportation Communications forITS Protocol
TNet: Company in the Information Systems Architecturebusiness - has a page on the IDB
TTI: Texas Transportation Institute
US DOT: US Department of Transportation

Consumer Electronics Market

General

Wireless Handhelds

Datacom/Telecom

CPIX Forum: http://www.cpixforum.org

Analog Modems

Curt'sHigh Speed Modem Page - Tons of information about modems and using modems with Windows
CommunicationsReference Links - Large collection of modem information
EverythingYou Ever Wanted To Know About Modems - But Were Afraid To Ask
V.90 Modem Standard- Information on the V.90 modem standard, including a buyer's guide
56K.COM- News and information on 56K Modems
The Official56K Modem Web Site - News and info on KFlex, X2, and V.90

Cable Modems

The CableModem Home Page - Created by Cable Labs to provide support for cablemodem certification services
CableDatacom News - News and information on cable modems
http://www.cable-modems.org
Cable Modem University: http://www.catv.org/modem
http://www.cablemodeminfo.com/
http://rpcp.mit.edu/~gingold/cable/
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/network/

DSL

xDSL.COM- Telechoice's DSL reference site
The ADSL Forum- An industry organization for promotion of ADSL and related DSL technologies
DSLin depth - An overview of DSL from Sun World
DanKegel's ADSL Page - Lots of ADSL information
xDSLTechnology - Good overview of DSL
DSLTutorial - Netspeed's guide to DSL technologies. Includes a good discussion of the various forms of DSL service.
comp.dcom.xdsl- xDSL Newsgroup
Universal ADSL Working Group: http://www.uawg.org/
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/network/

IP Telephony, VoIP, Converging Networks

resources: http://www.pulver.com

Switches

Industry Studies:Comparison and features of the major players in ethernet, ATM, ? switchingat http://www.tolly.com

IndustrialAutomation

http://www.isa.org
IAONA - The Industrial Automation Open NetworkingAlliance

IndustrialAutomation Open Networking
IAONA Europe www.iaona-eu.com

Can-In-Automation: http://www.can-cia.de/lsa.htm
OPC Foundation: http://www.opcfoundation.org
Industrial Ethernet Association http://www.industrialethernet.com
http://ethernet.industrial-networking.com/
http://www.oclab.org
http://www.puffinplc.org
http://www.manufacturing.net
http://www.plcopen.org

FIELDBUSTECHNOLOGY GENERAL

http://www.fieldbusplaza.com/
http://www.infoside.de/infida/wissen2.htm
http://www.ict.tuwien.ac.at/komzent/index.html
http://cran.esstin.u-nancy.fr/CRAN/Cran/ESSTIN/FieldBus.html
http://www.lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de/courses/seminar/fieldbus/fieldbus.html
http://www.shipstar.com/bus-perf/bus-perf.html
http://www.tnetco.com/
http://read-out.net/signpost/fieldbus.html
http://www.fieldbus.com.au/
http://www.relcominc.com/
http://www.fieldbus.net/
http://www.fieldbus.com/
http://www.isbe.ch/~wwwfbus
http://www.industrial-networking.com/

WWW-SITES, PER SYSTEM

2-WIRE BUS
See I2C-Bus

AB-3418
http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/elecsys/ab3418/ab3418.htm

ACCESS.bus
http://www.usar.com/indact/standards/accbf.htm
ftp://ftp.catc.com/ab_spec3.zip
http://www.mcc-us.com/techsrc.htm

ACTUATOR/SENSOR-INTERFACE
http://www.as-interface.com/
http://www.infoside.de/infida/asi/asi000.htm

ADVANCED CONTROL NETWORK
http://www.acorn.fhg.de/

ANSI 709.1
See LON

ANSI 878.1
See Arcnet

ARCNET
http://www.arcnet.com/
http://www.arcnet.de/

ARINC
http://www.sbs-avionics.com/

AS-511
http://www.runmode.com/

ASHRAE 135
See Bacnet

ASI, AS-INTERFACE
See Actuator/SensorInterface

BACNET
See BuildingAutomation Control Network

BITBUS
http://www.bitbus.org/

BUILDING AUTOMATION CONTROL NETWORK
http://www.bacnet.org/
http://www.big-na.org/
http://www.cimetrics.com/
http://www.ab-controls.com/bacnet.htm

CAB, CABNET
See CanadianAutomated Building Protocol

CAN
See ControllerArea Network

CANADIAN AUTOMATED BUILDING PROTOCOL
http://www.entrenet.com/cci/cabpro.html
ftp://ftp.tech-env.com/pub/CAB

CAN HYDRAULIC USERS GROUP
http://www.canhug.org/

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS BUS
http://www.smarthome.com/cebus.html
http://www.cebus.org/
http://www.intellon.com/

CONTROLLER AREA NETWORK
http://www.can-cia.de/
http://www.bosch.de/k8/can
http://www.kvaser.se/
http://www-ife.tu-graz.ac.at/Lokal/Tech/Can-Bus/index.html
http://www.intel.com/design/auto/network.htm
http://www.omegas.co.uk/CAN
http://www.hitex.com/can/
http://www.stzp.de/
http://www.ems-wuensche.com/
http://www.infineon.com/products/micro/micro.htm
ftp://ftp.cs.york.ac.uk/pub/realtime/programs/bin/CAN/CANalyse.zip

CONTROLNET
http://www.controlnet.org/
http://www.ab.com/

CURRENT LOOP
http://www.bb-elec.com/techlibr.asp

DATA-HIGHWAY / DH-485
http://www.theautomationbookstore.com/pdf01/1770/1770-6.5.16.pdf
http://www.ab.com/manuals/cn

DEVICE LANGUAGE MESSAGE SPECIFICATION
http://www.dlms.com/
http://www.kemaconnect.nl/

DEVICENET
http://www.odva.org/
http://www.devicenet.org/
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/devicenet

DF-1
http://www.ab.com/manuals/cn/protocol.html

DIN 19245
See Profibus

DIN 61491
See Sercos

DIN 66348
See DINMeasurement Bus

DIN-MEASUREMENT BUS
http://www.infoside.de/infida/dinmess/measure.htm
http://www.iwq.de/

DISTRIBUTED NETWORK PROTOCOL
http://www.dnp.org/
http://www.trianglemicroworks.com/

DISTRIBUTION LINE MESSAGE SPECIFICATION
See DeviceLanguage Message Specification

DLMS
See DistributionLine Message Specification

DMX-512
http://www.culturenet.ca/usitt/DMX/DMX512.htm

DSF 21906
See P-Net

EIA 422 / EIA 485
See RS422/485

EIA 709.1
See LON

EIA 878.1
See Arcnet

EIB
See EuropeanInstallation Bus

ELCOM
See TASE.1

EN 50170/1
See P-Net

EN 50170/2
See Profibus

EN 50170/3
See FIP

EN 50254/1
See Interbus/S

EN 50254/2
See Profibus/DP

EN 50254/3
See FIP

EN 50295
See AS-Interface

EN 50325/2
See Device-Net

EN 50325/3
See SmartDistributed System

EN 50325/4
See CAN/Open

EPSI
See EuropeanPetrol Station Interface

EUROPEAN INSTALLATION BUS
http://www.eiba.be/

EUROPEAN PETROL STATION INTERFACE
http://www.iwq.de/

ETHERNET, INDUSTRIAL ETHERNET
http://www.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet
http://www.hpie.com/
http://www.industrialethernet.com/
http://www.industrial-ethernet.com/
http://www.ethernetio.com/
http://www.transparentfactory.com/technology/herschmann/index.htm
http://www.hirschmann-usa.com/netmain.htm
http://www.iaona.com/

FIELDBUS FOUNDATION
http://www.fieldbus.org/
http://www.fint.no/

FIP/WORLDFIP
http://www.worldfip.org/

FIREWIRE
http://www.1394ta.org/
http://www.andygrove.com/technology/1394/papers.htm
http://www.ti.com/sc/1394

HART
http://www.ccsi.com/hart
http://www.fieldbus.com/hart
http://www.fint.no/

I2C-BUS
http://www.ping.be/~ping0751/i2c.htm
http://www-eu2.semiconductors.philips.com/i2c
http://www.online.ro/chipdir/abc/i.htm#I2C
http://www.mcc-us.com/techsrc.htm

ICCP
See TelecontrolApplications Service Element 2

IEC 870-5
See IEC60870-5

IEC 60870-5
http://www.kemaconnect.nl/
http://www.trianglemicroworks.com/
http://www.iinet.net.au/~ianw/iec870.html

IEC 60870-6
See TelecontrolApplications Service Element 1
-or-
See TelecontrolApplications Service Element 2

IEC 61850
See UtilityCommunications Architecture

IEC 62026/2
See AS-Interface

IEC 62026/3
See Device-Net

IEC 62026/5
See SmartDistributed System

IEC 62026/6
See Seriplex

IEC 62136
See DMX512

IEEE 1394
See Firewire

IEEE 1451
http://www.ic.ornl.gov/p1451

II-O LIGHTBUS
http://www.trelectronic.se/light.htm

I-LINK
See Firewire

INDUSTRIAL ETHERNET
See Ethernet

INTERBUS-S
http://www.ibsclub.com/
http://www.interbusclub.com/

INTER-CONTROL CENTER COMMUNICATIONSPROTOCOL
See TASE.2

ISO 11519/3
See VAN

J1850
http://www.intel.nl/design/intarch/papers/j1850_wp.htm

J1939
http://www.j1939.com/
http://www.sae.org/
http://www.kvaser.se/can/hlps/j1939.htm

LOCAL OPERATING NETWORK
http://www.echelon.com/
http://www.lonmark.org/

M3S
See MultipleMaster, Multiple Slave

MANUFACTURING MESSAGE SPECIFICATION
http://www.sisconet.com/techinfo.htm
ftp://ftp.sisconet.com/outgoing/marketin/mmsovrlg.pdf
http://icawww.epfl.ch/MMS

MARITIME INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STANDARD
http://www.itk.unit.no/SINTEF/MITS/mits.html

METER-BUS
http://www.m-bus.com/

MIL-STD 1553
http://www.sbs-avionics.com/

M-LAN
http://www.maguire.com/software/download.htm

MODBUS, MODBUS+, MODBUS/TCP
http://www.modbus.org/
http://www.modicon.com/techpubs/toc6.html
http://www.modicon.com/techpubs/toc7.html
http://www.modicon.com/openmbus/
http://www.robustdc.com/mbus_tcp.htm

MOTION AND CONTROL RING OPTICAL
http://www.macro.org/

MPI
See MultiPoint Interface

MULTI POINT INTERFACE
http://www.runmode.com/

MULTIPLE MASTER, MULTIPLE SLAVE
http://www.tno.nl/m3s

NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION COMMUNICATIONITS PROTOCOL
http://www.ite.org/standards/ntcip.htm

NIOBRARA R&D TCP
http://www.niobrara.com/nrdtcp.html

NTC/IP
See NationalTransportation Communication ITS Protocol

OLCHFA
See OpenLow-cost Time-critical Wireless Fieldbus Architecture

OPEN LOW-COST TIME-CRITICAL WIRELESSFIELDBUS ARCHITECTURE
http://www.faps.uni-erlangen.de/persons/stoeckel/olchfa/olchfa.html

OPTOMUX
http://www.opto22.com/reference/manuals/default.htm

OSEK
http://www.kvaser.se/can/hlps/osek.htm
http://www-iiit.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de/~osek

P-NET
http://www.ict.tuwien.ac.at/komzent/p-net/index.html
http://www.proces-data.dk/
http://www.p-net.dk/

PROFIBUS
http://www.profibus.com/
http://www.vertacross.com/en/profibus.html
http://www.profibus.ch/
http://www.aut.sea.siemens.com/pic
http://www.profibuscenter.nl/
http://www.boc.nl/
http://www.profichip.com/

RS422/485
http://www.bb-elec.com/techlibr.asp

SAFETYBUS
http://www.safetybus.com/

SAN
See SensorActuator Network

SBS
See SmartBattery Bus

SCRAMNET
http://www.systran.com/

SDS
See SmartDistributed System

SECS-I, -II
See SemiconductorEquipment Communication Standard

SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT COMMUNICATIONSTANDARD
http://www.semi.org/
http://www.gwainc.com/

SEMI E54.1
http://www.semi.org/

SEMI E54.4
See Devicenet

SEMI E54.5
See SmartDistributed System

SEMI E54.6
See LocalOperating Network

SEMI E54.7
See Seriplex

SEMI E54.8
See Profibus/DP

SEMI E54.9
See Modbus/TCP

SEMI E59
Renamed to SEMIE54.4

SEMI E60
Renamed to SEMIE54.5

SEMI E61
Renamed to SEMIE54.6

SENSOR/ACTUATOR NETWORK
See SEMIE54.1

SERCOS
http://www.sercos.com/
http://www.sercos.org/
http://vigna.cimsi.cim.ch/sercos/

SERIPLEX
http://www.seriplex.org/

SMART BATTERY BUS
http://www.sbs-forum.org/

SMART DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM
http://www.honeywell.com/sensing/prodinfo/sds/

SMARTHOUSE
http://www.smart-house.com/

SP50
http://www.isa.org/sc/committee/1,1512,66,00.html

SWIFTNET
http://www.shipstar.com/swiftnet.html

TASE.1
See TelecontrolApplications Service Element 1

TASE.2
See TelecontrolApplications Service Element 2

TELECONTROL APPLICATIONS SERVICE ELEMENT1
http://www.kemaconnect.nl/

TELECONTROL APPLICATIONS SERVICE ELEMENT2
http://www.epri.com/
http://www.sisconet.com/techinfo.htm
ftp://ftp.sisconet.com/epri

UCA
See UtilityCommunications Architecture

UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS
http://www.usb.org/
http://www.catc.com/
http://www.usar.com/usb

USB
See UniversalSerial Bus

UTILITY COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE
http://www.epri.com/
http://www.sisconet.com/techinfo.htm
ftp://ftp.sisconet.com/epri/uca2.0
http://www.kemaconnect.nl/

VAN
See VehicleArea Network

VEHICLE AREA NETWORK
http://www.van-bus.org/

WORLDFIP
See FIP

X10

http://www.x10.com/
http://www.infinet.com/~dhoehnen/ha/list.html
http://web.cs.ualberta.ca/~wade/HyperHome
http://www.smarthome.com/smarthome/index.html

Embedded Systems

Embedded Systems Magazines andSites

EmbeddedSystems Programming Magazine: Articles and links to the embedded world.Check out the directories and magazine sections.
Real-TimeMagazine: A page with links to all RTOS vendors.
EG3: embeddedsystems toolkit, technology whitepapers, etc.
http://www.techweb.com

Internet Related Communication Protocols

General Information, RFC mirroring sites,etc.

Protocol classes, RealAudio
http://www.protocols.com
http://www.ece.wpi.edu/courses/ee535/hwk96/hwk3cd96/sef/sef.html
Internet RFCs : All Internet protocol RFCsreadable in your Webbrowser.

The RFC Editor http://www.rfc-editor.org
IETF Working Groups:www.ietf.org/html.charters
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/information/rfc.html
http://store.in.ru/rfcs/rfc-activeV.html
http://www.pmg.lcs.mit.edu/rfc.html

Internetworking Overview : Overview of routing,TCP/IP, WANs, LANs, ... at Cisco Systems webpage

Web ProForums Tutorials at http://www.webproforum.com
Motorola's Design-Net: Check out the applicationarea: Telecom, Datacom, Consumer, ... http://www.design-net.com
TechnologyGuides: You'll have to subscribe to this free service. Whitepapers about xDSL, switches,... and their markets. Overviews about networking,telecom, ? sponsored by technology providers. Look for ADSL, ATM, ? newtechnologies at http://www.techguide.com
HighBandwidth Web Page - Information on ADSL, Cable Modems, ISDN, etc.
HighSpeed Networking Pages - Tons of links to high speed networking technologies. By Joe Lindsay

Networking Magazines and News

EE-Times http://www.eet.com
http://www.telecommagazine.com
Data Communications magazine (has tutorials): http://www.data.com
Network Magazine (subscribe for tutorials): http://www.networkmagazine.com
Cisco's Internet Protocol Journal: http://www.cisco.com/ipj
Network World magazine: Technical Tutorialsfor ATM, WAN, IP, etc. in the "Net Resources" section: http://www.nwfusion.com
Communication System Design: http://www.csdmag.com
Wireless Design Online: http://www.wirelessdesignonline.com
ATM News Digest (general broadband news, listof standards organizations, ...): http://www.atmdigest.com/StandardsWatch.htm
Information Technology Professional's ResourceCenter: http://www.itprc.com
IEEE Communications Surveys: http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/surveys
TelephonyMagazine http://www.internettelephony.com/
Inter@ctiveWeek http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/
tele.comhttp://www.teledotcom.com/
CommunicationsWeek International http://www.emap.com/cwi/
ElectronicEngineering Times http://techweb.cmp.com/techweb/eet/current/
InternetWeek http://techweb.cmp.com/internetwk/
http://www.networkcomputing.com/core/core.html

Details

The ATM Forum : The international ATM organization. http://www.atmforum.com

BGP
- http://joe.lindsay.net/bgp.html
Bluetooth

http://www.bluetooth.com

http://www.can-cia.de/lsa.htm

Consumer Electronics, HAVi

http://www.havi.org

CORBA

The Object Management Group : The OMG (CORBA)organization. http://www.omg.org
CORBA and OMG Information Resources : Internetlinks regarding CORBA. http://www.acl.lanl.gov/CORBA

DeviceNet

http://www.odva.org

Device Management

See also SNMP and XML above
Network Management Information: http://netman.cit.buffalo.edu/index.html
The SimpleWeb: http://snmp.cs.utwente.nl
DMTF (Desktop Management Task Force): www.dmtf.org
Home device API: http://www.homeapi.org
Distributed agents http://www.cslabs.com
http://java.sun.com/products/JavaManagement

Fibre Channel

FibreChannelAssociation - News, information, and product guides on FibreChannel

Frame Relay

The Frame Relay Forum : The internationalFrame Relay organization. http://www.frforum.com
Frame Relay Resources page : Internet linksfrom basics to products. http://www.mot.com/MIMS/ISG/tech/frame-relay/resources.html

GigabitEthernet Alliance
I2O: The I2OSpecial Interest Group
ISDN

ISDN Resources page (Dan Kegel): Internetlinks from basics to products. http://alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/isdn

IPv6: Internet Protocol v6

Microsoft Networking

MOST

http://mostnet.de

MPLS

http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/mpls-charter.html
Whitepaper MPLS / CR-LDP: http://nortelnetworks.com/mpls
Tutorial MPLS: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-9905/ppt/mpls/index.htm

PCI
SNMP

Whitepaper: Introduction to SNMP: http://www.rad.com/networks/1995/snmp/snmp.htm
Agent-X IETF Working Group: http://www.scguild.com/agentx

SONET/SDH

SONET HomePage - Information on Synchronous Optical NETworking
SONETTutorial - By Worcester Polytechnic Institute
SONETWhite Paper - Covers the history and basic characteristics
SONET/SDH- A white paper on SONET/SDH
SONET101 - An introduction to SONET, by Nortel
Introductionto SONET Networking - Follow on to SONET 101
Whatis SONET? - From a SONET to PC interface project by Jasbir S. Mahal and Danny Moore
SONETInteroperability Forum - organization to promote the deployment ofSONET technologyRMON

RMON

demo downloadable at http://www.ion-networks.com/

RSVP

http://www.isi.edu/rsvp

WAP (WirelessApplication Protocol) Forum
Wireless

http://www.cdpd.org
CDMA Development Group : Consortium for theCDMA wireless systems http://www.cdg.org/index.html

WWW (HTML, XML, etc.)

W3C (WWW Consortium): http://www.w3c.org

XTPForum

Standards Organizations

InternationalTelecommunication Union - Geneva, Switzerland based organization withinwhich governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networksand services
AmericanNational Standards Institute (ANSI) - Administrator and coordinator of the United States private sector voluntary standardization system
Standards CommitteeT1 Telecommunications - develops technical standards and reports regardinginterconnection and interoperability of telecommunications networks
IETF http://www.ietf.org

IETF Working Groups: www.ietf.org/html.charters

DMTF http://www.dmtf.org
UNH Interoperability Lab http://iol.unh.edu

Test charters http://iol.unh.edu/testsuites/index.html UNH-IOLTraining Tutorials http://www.iol.unh.edu/training/index.html

Shows

GeneralInformation

TCL

Online Dictionaries and Glossaries of Computing

Cabling

BICSILibrary - Collection of information on cabling and cabling standards
The CablingDirectory - Interactive buyers guide and technical information on wiring