COMPUTER NETWORK INTERFACE DESIGN - LESSONS FROM ARPANET AND ETHERNET

My first high-speed computer/network interface was for the Arpanet in 1969. Twenty years later, in 1989, my last was for Ethernet, of which my former company 3Com now ships more than 150,000 per month. So, havi ng been involved with one of the earliest and with the largest selling of high-speed computer/network interfaces, I am full of advice. Arpan et and Ethernet were considered very high speed when they first appear ed, and some of their more general lessons are likely to be applicable to computer/network interfaces operating on up to a terabit, petabit, or perhaps even an exabit per second.