Metcalfe on Ethernet’s lessons, unsung heros

Metcalfe on Ethernet’s lessons, unsung heros

“There’s an army of unsung engineers who helped invent Ethernet,” says Bob Metcalfe, taking a long drag on his cigarette as he ruminates about the now ubiquitous network technology he described in a memo to colleagues at Xerox PARC on May 22, 1973.

As the smoke curls around his head some of the names and the stories begin to emerge from the distant past. The first is David Boggs, a Stanford grad student who in 1973 was working in the next lab over from Metcalfe at PARC.


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David Boggs


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