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Introduction to the History of Wired LAN Panel (7:34)
Geoff Thompson lays out the scope of the presentation, gives a brief synopsis of his résumé and introduces the members of the panel. He points out that this panel represents a small slice of a very large topic and he also provides a pointer to a good reference on the history of the wired LAN. The focus…
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Token Ring & Ethernet and the PC Revolution (10:42)
Dan Pitt, Geoff Thompson, and Joe Skorupa debate the market and technology dynamics of LANs, standards development, its relation to the PC revolution, and the corporate positioning behind it all. [Special thanks to Dan Pitt for supplying the above description and title]
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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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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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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]
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MAC Address Depletion and Virtual Machines (2:29)
Geoff Thompson discusses the impact of virtual machines on address depletion. Joe Skorupa asserts that the Internet of Things is a larger danger. [Special thanks to Geoff Thompson for supplying the above description and title]
