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Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3Com and now venture capitalist with Polaris Venture Partners, is joining the Metro Ethernet Forum as Advisory Director.
“The Metro Ethernet Forum is the kind of place I like to be,” said Bob Metcalfe, “where standards, particularly Ethernet standards, gain momentum with organized efforts to knock down obstacles to market adoption.”http://www.MetroEthernetForum.org
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From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about Ethernet. Here is what it replaced:
Token Bus (802.4) served 1982–1990. What ultimately replaced it?
Token Bus (802.4) formed a logical token-passing ring over a physical coax bus, so factory-floor stations got deterministic, collision-free access (favored by GM's MAP initiative). Its job passed to Ethernet — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
