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Communications News, Feb, 1999

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE WEB FORUMS ...

* www.techguide.com - new interactive feature is a series of tech forums open to the entire IT community; administered from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. No user ID is required to join a forum; users are free to view all postings without adding any.

* www.gigabit-ethernet.org - the Gigabit Ethernet Alliance is an open forum whose purpose is to promote industry cooperation in the development of Gigabit Ethernet. Membership is open to all interested parties.

* www.frforum.com - first-time visitors to the Frame Relay Forum will find a form with nine simple questions geared to their participation. For more information on this forum, interested parties can contact: Tel: 510-608-5920; Fax: 510-608-5917; or e-mail: frf@frforum.com

* www.niuf.nist.gov - the North American ISDN Users' Forum (NIUF) has its next meeting from February 23-25, 1999, in Gaithersburg, Md. NIUF's purpose is to create a strong user voice in the implementation of ISDN applications.

* www.adsl.com - March 2, 1999 marks the next ADSL Forum Summit Meeting in Washington, D.C. At the November '98 Los Angeles Summit, attendees experienced high-speed access through live demonstrations of videoconferencing, music, games, online shopping, and VoIP.

* www.wlif.com - "The Wireless LAN Interoperability Forum promotes the use of wireless LANs through the delivery of interoperable products and services at all levels of the value chain" according to its Web site. Visitors can sign up for WLI Forum e-news to receive the latest information about this forum.

* www.oiforum.com - the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has a mission: to foster the development and deployment of interoperable products/services for data switching and routing using optical networking technologies. Find out more at this Web site about membership, meetings, FAQs, and the Forum itself.