Ethernet: From 1973 to Now
Celebrate the revolution in digital communications through stories about Ethernet's evolution and its creators.
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This blog celebrates the people and events associated Ethernet. Today's Internet is a communications network built on Ethernet+TCP/IP+HTTP
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The author, Yogen Dalal earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1977 from Stanford, where he was one of Vint Cerf's graduate students and co-authored the first TCP Specification (RFC 675, INWG 72) in 1974. He received a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering in 1972 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay where he was recently honored as a Distinguished Alum.
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Upon graduating from Stanford he went to work with Bob Metcalfe and others at Xerox where he was a member of the original Star workstation and Ethernet development teams, and played an instrumental role in creating the 10 MBPS Ethernet Specification with DEC and Intel in 1980 that resulted in the creation of the IEEE 802.3 LAN standard. He was the author of the Xerox Network Systems (XNS) Protocols that took the best of TCP and Xerox PUP, and was designed in anticipation of the very large internet we have today.
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