Stories about: Metcalfe

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    The Internet at 40: History Began With Its First Crash 30/10/2009 09:24:00

    Why do we today celebrate today -- October 29 -- as the Internet's 40's birthday? Because on this day in 1969, what would later became known as the Internet was used for the very first time -- and crashed.
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    3Com Celebrates 30 Years of Innovation 25/06/2009 10:39:00

    Networking Industry Pioneer Remains Focused on its Core Business of Enterprise Data Networking and its Core Tenets of Value, Openness and Ease-of-Operations
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    Terabit Ethernet in sight 31/03/2009 08:16:00

    Looking down the LAN road, the Terabit Ethernet milestone is very much in sight. While 3.2Tbps and 6.4Tbps speeds were demonstrated in test environments by Siemens/WorldCom and NEC/Nortel respectively starting in 2001, the first set of viable solutions are just now taking shape.
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    Ethernet at 35 29/05/2008 12:19:14

    Ethernet turned 35 last week. The official birth date of Ethernet is generally regarded as May 22, 1973, the date of a memo penned by Bob Metcalfe that laid out the basic concepts of Ethernet. To mark the occasion, I thought it might be fun to look back at another anniversary milestone.
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    Top 50 tech visionaries 22/05/2008 10:20:00

    It's easy to look at a laptop, an iPod, or a laser printer as nothing more than a tool to get work done with or to while away your free time on, but these and many other high-tech devices didn't fall off a tree. They emerged following years of hard work--and in some cases, an entire career devoted to a single technology--by inspired researchers, designers, and developers.
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    Weekly Tech News Update: April 04, 2008 04/04/2008 12:00:00

    Mac is hacked first at CanSecWest; Toshiba's robot helps control remotes; Boston hosts a robotic competition and Steve Wozniak talks on tech; Intel introduces a new Classmate PC; Mobile Internet Devices use Intel's Atom processor; and AT&T uses Microsoft's Surface computer.
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    The LAN turns 30, but will it reach 40? 01/02/2008 09:20:52

    LAN technology recently passed a milestone -- it's been around for 30 years, some of them tumultuous. But while the LAN seems ubiquitous now, there are those who think its future may be more troubled than its past.
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    Internet overload: creating an accurate picture 03/12/2007 07:04:58

    It seems like only yesterday that the press was talking about an Internet collapse, but it actually was more than a decade ago and happened because the press thought Bob Metcalfe was predicting the Internet was going to overload and collapse.
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    IPv6 Will matter to the enterprise in five years 10/11/2007 08:30:12

    Welcome to Network World Chats. Our guest today is Jeff Doyle, celebrity author, Cisco Subnet blogger and networking guru. He has come prepared to answer your questions on all things routing.
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    The top network inventors of all time 03/07/2007 15:17:52

    Although boxing legend George Foreman, a judge on the second-year CBS reality show American Inventor, has yet to invent a network device, his Lean Mean Grilling Fat-Reducing Machine has been used by countless techies to quickly cook sandwiches and hamburgers after a long day in the data center.
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    Billionaire ex-Microsoft developer set for space travel 27/03/2007 08:52:27

    Next month, billionaire software developer Charles Simonyi, will become the fifth civilian to fly in space when he rockets to the international space station aboard a Russian Soyuz TMA-10 capsule. He will be joined by Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov and return to Earth 11 days later with the systems current orbiting crew -- Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and Spanish-born U.S. astronaut Miguel Lopez-Alegria, according to reports. Simonyi is spending more than US$20 million for the trip.
 
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