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FDDI & Token Ring Patents (5:48)
Joe Skorupa brings in the difficult situation around token ring patents, which were owned by Olof Söderblom, and Tom Slykhouse relates the origins and positioning of FDDI. [Special thanks to Dan Pitt and Geoff Thompson for supplying the above description and title]
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Why FDDI Didn’t Happen (4:53)
The entire panel discusses the various factors regarding FDDI, which was the great hope for high-speed networks and why things didn’t work out that way. [Special thanks to Dan Pitt for supplying the above description and title]
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Network Management (7:30)
Geoff Thompson asks the group about network management. Slykhouse asks Steve Haddock (audience) about early FDDI at Sun. Skorupa asserts that Ethernet’s move from a coax bus to structured cabling was the management watershed for Ethernet. The importance of hubs is discussed. [Special thanks to Dan Pitt and Geoff Thompson for supplying the above description…
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ATM’s Unsuccessful Foray Into the Market (7:07)
Joe Skorupa discusses how ATM tried to break into the networking market based on his experience at Fore Systems. He goes into the reasons ATM did not make it. [Special thanks to Geoff Thompson for supplying the above description and title]
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Simplicity of Ethernet (4:14)
The simplicity (or lack thereof) of Ethernet is discussed in the competitive context. [Special thanks to Geoff Thompson for supplying the above description and title]
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Ethernet vs ArcNet and Token Ring (5:47)
Geoff Thompson discusses the role of the advocacy of Bob Metcalfe to the success of Ethernet. The other technologies didn’t have the same push into the supplier base even though they may have been “?Good enough”?. [Special thanks to Geoff Thompson for supplying the above description and title]
