EC285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Delimiter, Network Switch, Modular Connector
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The same california research facility that gave the world graphical user interfaces (guis), mice, and laser printers - xerox parc -also gave us ethernet, the technology specification now employed everywhere for connecting computers on lans. Ethernet is a wired (not wireless) technology invented by robert (bob) metcalfe and david. Metcalfe left parc in 1979 to co-found a company called 3com in order to develop and market ethernet and other network technologies. Ethernet gradually came to replace competing technologies from other companies. Ethernet was also adopted as a communications standard by the prestigious institute of. Electrical and electronics engineers (ieee, pronounced i triple e ) The formal name for the standard is ieee 802. 3, but its popular name is still ethernet. Many companies developed network products that met the ieee 802. 3 specification which helped ethernet to become the ubiquitous standard it is today. Metcalfe was dumped from his ceo position at 3com in 1990 and left to take on other projects.
