Stanford University received a Christmas present from Xerox PARC in 1979: several Xerox Alto workstations, Ethernet hardware, and documentation on network protocols. My director asked me to figure out how to link the Stanford Medical Center where I worked to the computer science and electrical engineering departments across campus. I thus embarked on a project that led to the invention of the Internet multiple-protocol Ethernet router. This story picks five years later in the spring of 1985.
Index Terms:
source code, Cisco Systems
Citation:
Bill Yeager, "The Software that Launched Cisco Systems," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 96, 94-95, Jan./Feb. 2005, doi:10.1109/MIC.2005.25