Tag: networking-packet-switching-and-internet-infrastructure

ARPANET united networking vision, packet switching, IMP hardware, host protocols, measurement, and the RFC process in one experimental network.

Seven protocol architects, implementers, coordinators, and stewards helped turn internetworking into the TCP/IP architecture used by the global Internet.

Seven Xerox PARC and early Ethernet contributors helped turn a shared coaxial LAN into the dominant wired networking family.

Seven routing pioneers helped create the protocols that let local networks, autonomous systems, and provider backbones find scalable paths.

Seven protocol designers, coordinators, directory pioneers, and BIND maintainers helped make Internet names scalable and globally usable.

Seven pioneers helped turn local computer mailboxes into interoperable network email with usable clients, common message formats, and Internet routing.

Seven standards, product, OFDM, and WLAN pioneers helped turn wireless local networking into a universal interoperable technology.

Seven cellular pioneers helped combine handheld devices, cell architecture, handoff, service systems, and digital CDMA into scalable mobile networking.

Seven protocol designers and IETF leaders helped select, specify, and operationalize IPv6 as the long-term successor to IPv4.

Seven pioneers turned packet switching from distributed-communications theory into the operational and architectural foundation of modern data networks.