The Voices of Ethernet

The Voices of Ethernet

The Ethernet Alliance is preserving Ethernet’s historical records through a collection of spoken records with the real people behind Ethernet’s story, sharing engaging personal accounts of pivotal events and major milestones that may have otherwise been forgotten or remain widely unknown.

Episodes

12: Voices of Ethernet | A Conversation with Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard, Ph.D.

August 10, 2023 • 34 mins
Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard, Ph.D. is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and the Father of the Cable Modem. In this interview with Ethernet Alliance chair Peter Jones for The Voices of Ethernet oral history archive, Rouzbeh reflects on how the lessons of Ethernet, specifically the focus on low cost, interoperability, and open standardization, impacted his work in creating the cable modem.
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11: Voices of Ethernet | A Conversation with Paul Nikolich

June 12, 2023 • 33 mins
Paul Nikolich has been chair of the IEEE 802 Working Group since 2001. In this interview with Ethernet Alliance chair Peter Jones for The Voices of Ethernet oral history archive, Nikolich describes the importance of standards development and how it is an opportunity to take an idea and enable it to be deployed widely on a global scale with Ethernet as a prime example. 

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10: Voices of Ethernet | A Conversation with Tony Jeffree, Pt 2

April 25, 2023 • 20 mins
Leading the IEEE 802.1 Working Group for 14 years, Tony Jeffree played a crucial role in editing numerous standards. In this part 2 interview, Jeffree continues his discussion on the importance of standards work with Ethernet Alliance chair Peter Jones for The Voices of Ethernet oral history archive.
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9: Voices of Ethernet | A Conversation with Tony Jeffree, Pt 1

April 25, 2023 • 22 mins
Tony Jeffree led the IEEE 802.1 Working Group for 14 years, where he played a major role in editing numerous standards. Jeffree describes the early days of working in the evolving standards work of IEEE 802 in this part 1 interview with Ethernet Alliance chair Peter Jones for The Voices of Ethernet oral history archive.
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8: Voices of Ethernet | A Conversation with David Cunningham

August 12, 2022 • 30 mins
Ethernet Networking and LAN/MAN Standards Expert

“Ethernet has been created by lots of contributors who all probably saw what was happening from a different point of view,” David Cunningham said. “We’ve all worked on different parts of the standard at different times.”

Cunningham’s personal point of view is unusually comprehensive. In more than two decades of work in local and metro area network standardizati...
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7: Voices of Ethernet | A Conversation with Gordon Bell

May 11, 2022 • 21 mins
An important aspect of Ethernet’s beginnings is that it was not simply a clever idea—it also was a necessary one.

Computer designer, architect and researcher, Gordon Bell had been with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the early 1960s where his achievements included major contributions to architecting the company’s Programmed Data Processor (PDP) line of minicomputers. He left in 1966 to join the computer-science...
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6: Voices of Ethernet | A Conversation with Rich Seifert

April 11, 2022 • 32 mins
Waves are still rippling from the splashes that Rich Seifert made over the course of his decades in creation and evolution of Ethernet. In 1979 and ’80, while he was with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Seifert worked alongside engineers from Intel and Xerox to cowrite, “The Ethernet, A Local Area Network. Data Link Layer and Physical Layer Specifications,” the seminal document which greatly informed the initial IEEE Proj...
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5: Voices of Ethernet | A Conversation with Robert Garner

February 4, 2022 • 37 mins
Robert Garner has 41 years of experience in management, architecture and design engineering across product development and research at Xerox Systems Development, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Sun Microsystems, Brocade Communications and IBM Research. From that remarkable career, he has preserved a slew of stories and an impressive collection of relics, and he’s thrilled to share them.

Garner was...
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4: Voices of Ethernet | A Conversation with Geoff Thompson

November 16, 2021 • 28 mins
Geoff Thompson has been part of the IEEE 803.3 Ethernet Working Group since 1983, and he chaired it from 1993 until 2002, a period in which standards innovations such as 1000-BASE-T and Gigabit Ethernet “effectively cemented Ethernet as the top dog in wired LANs (local area networks).”

But his connection with the technology and its inventors goes even further back. “I was a very, very early customer of Ethernet.” At X...
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3: Voices of Ethernet | A Conversation with Robert Grow

October 18, 2021 • 31 mins
Robert M. Grow calls himself “a latecomer to Ethernet,” but, in fact, he has been involved in the technology for its entire existence. He was immersed in the design of the first local area networks (LANs) in the 1970s, and, even during his university years, Grow “got involved looking at some of the more advanced and more futuristic looks at technology and things that would be happening,” he tells Ethernet Alliance chair Peter ...
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2: Voices of Ethernet | A Conversation with Gary Robinson

October 18, 2021 • 29 mins
In 1980, when IEEE started Project 802 to standardize local area networks (LANs), Gary Robinson was part of the “DIX-group” which submitted the “Blue Book” carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) specification as a candidate. Robinson ended up being one of the catalysts in developing the flexibility of the IEEE 802 standards family and working group which has proven to be key to its long-term viability...
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1: Voices of Ethernet | A Conversation with Bob Metcalfe

October 18, 2021 • 27 mins
On the brink of what he calls his “sixth career, whatever that’s going to turn out to be,” Robert M. Metcalfe shares some of the earliest stories from the technology’s history. Regarded as the “Father of Ethernet,” Metcalfe is credited with co-inventing Ethernet while working at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 1973.
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