Metcalfe drew upon his knowledge of ALOHAnet, a pioneering computer networking system created at the University of Hawaii, in the design of the Ethernet. He then recruited David Boggs, a co ...

Ethernet was a groundbreaking technology that revolutionized computer networking. Robert Metcalfe, along with his colleagues David Boggs, Chuck Thacker, and Butler Lampson, developed Ethernet as a ...

"The value of a network increases exponentially with the number of nodes," coined by Bob Metcalfe, founder of 3Com Corporation and major designer of Ethernet. A network becomes more useful as more ...

Over the next two years, Boggs and Metcalfe created the first version of Ethernet, the networking technology that connects PCs to printers and other devices. In comparison to the internet's long ...