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Tagged “networking”
3 articles
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The History of Ethernet
A memo at Xerox PARC in 1973 described a network that shared a single cable and politely retried when two computers talked at once. Fifty years later Ethernet runs from your desk to the AI data centers at 800 gigabits…
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The Rise and Fall of Networking Giants
Wang, Banyan and Novell each owned a piece of the office computer before the internet. Each was beaten not by a better product but by a shift in what everyone else had standardized on. How they rose, why they fell, and…
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The Importance of Switching from IPv4 to IPv6
The world ran out of IPv4 addresses thirteen years ago, and this year Amazon started charging rent on every one. What IPv6 actually fixes, which of its selling points are myths, the mistakes that bite sysadmins turning…