BOB METCALFE of Polaris Venture Partners received the National Medal of Technology in 2005 for his leadership in the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet, which added 350 million new switch ports last year, not counting Wi-Fi, according to IDC.
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April 9, 2009[Engineering Essentials] Ethernet Prepositions
Ethernet, still going strong after 36 years, can be associated with these varied prepositions: up, into, across, over, and down. It’s going up in local-area-network (LAN) speed to 40 and 100 Gbits/s. Recall that we started Ethernet in 1973 at 2.94 Mbits/s. It’s going into the core of our long-haul networks, replacing Sonet at 40 Gbits/s today over long-haul dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM). Terabit Ethernet is on ...
December 9, 2002[Technology Report] What Is This Thing They Call Ethernet?
Ethernet was invented in a memo that I wrote on May 22, 1973 at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Dave Boggs and I built our first experimental Ethernet in 1974 to connect dozens of Xerox Alto personal computers and their laser printer (EARS)....
