Speed matters: How Ethernet went from 3Mbps to 100Gbps… and beyond
One of the biggest computing inventions of all time, courtesy of Xerox PARC.
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One of the biggest computing inventions of all time, courtesy of Xerox PARC.
Ome 50 years ago, at the Palo Alto Research Centre of that renowned photocopier company Xerox, a revolutionary approach to local digital networks was born. On the 22nd of May 1973, Bob Metcalf authored a memo that described "X-Wire," a 3Mbps common bus office network system developed at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
Unveiling Ethernet's 50-year journey, its enduring appeal, and its promising future in networking technology.
Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. A network packet analyzer will try to capture network packets and tries to display that packet data as detailed as possible.
One of my readers asked for my opinion about the provocative “It’s Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter” article by prof. John Ousterhout. I started reading it, found too many things that didn’t make sense, and decided to ignore it as another attempt of a proverbial physicist solving hard problems in someone else’s field. However, pointers to that article kept popping up, and I eventually realized it was a position paper in a long-term process that included conference talks, interviews and keynote speeches, so I decided to take another look at the technical detai...