Some Things You Didn’t Know About Ethernet
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Ethernet has been present in business network structures for years and was a large part of home connectivity before Wi-Fi became the norm. Today it still serves a vital role in LAN, high speed office to office connectivity, and carrying both voice and data in and out of businesses.
Here are some cool facts you probably didn’t know about Ethernet.
The first Ethernet connection
1) Ethernet was developed in 1972 by Robert Metcalfe at the Xerox Palo Alto Reseach Center (PARC). Originally it was to be called “Alto Aloha Network” but was changed to “Ethernet” in 1973 as a reference to “luminiferious ether”.
2) Ethernet was big in academic and a few corporate networks but received stiff competition from IBM’s Token Ring. Eventually Ethernet won the 10 year standardization battle due to the widespread adoption of Ethernet switching.
3) Metcalfe went on to form 3com in 1979 to promote the use of local area networks and personal computers.
4) In 1995 Fast Ethernet was introduced that brought Ethernet speeds up to 100 Mbit/s. It’s reign as “fastest” lasted three years until Gigbit Ethernet gigabit per second (1,000,000,000 Bits per second) took over.
5) In addition to developing Ethernet at PARC, researchers developed what eventually became the PC, graphical user interface, laser printing, and VLSI (very large scale integration). Since Xerox did nothing to develop these technologies, they walked out the door and helped created giants Apple, Intel, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft and HP.
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