17 standard for his contributions to this chapter.
Mannix O??™Connor (Chapter 10)
First things first??”thank you, Abdul, for inviting me to participate in this exciting project.
Special thanks also go to Rodney Boehm, Bill Erickson, and Doug Saylor for your insightful
comments, which helped shape this chapter. Joan, this is for you. Thanks for your encouragement
and support.
Paul Havala (Chapter 11)
Thanks to Latha Vishnubhotla for preparing lists of vendors and equipment costs.
Norman Finn (Chapter 13)
Luca thanks Melissa for her patience during the writing of Chapter 14. Luca and Giles
also thank MariaJose, Chris, and George for their review of the content.
Giles Heron, Luca Martini (Chapter 14)
xx Acknowledgments
Foreword
Ethernet was invented as a local area network (LAN) and named in a memo I wrote at
the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Parc) on May 22, 1973. Dave Boggs and I never
imagined that the Ethernets we started building in 1973 would proliferate and evolve
as they have over these past 30 some years and certainly not as an access technology.
I now often quote IDC, which has published the amazing fact that over a quarter of
a billion new Ethernet switch ports were shipped worldwide in 2006.
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