Robert Metcalfe and his associates invented Ethernet in 1972 (see “Ethernet Prepositions”). The original Ethernet was a coax bus topology with a bit rate of 2.94 Mbits/s. During the next 10 years, it ...
Ethernet is one of the original networking technologies, having been invented 50 years ago. And yet, because of the simplicity by which the communications protocol can be deployed and its ability to ...