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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">My favorite was Bob Metcalfe saying Ethernet will be replaced by FDDI by the year 2000. To be fair, this was 1990 and
Ethernet would be deployed a lot differently in the near future. It is just ironic that Ethernet has killed nearly every L2 technology it is put up against.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">“My own projection is that Ethernet will be obsolete by the year 2000, being replaced in the mainstream primarily by
FDDI”<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> internet-history-bounces@postel.org <internet-history-bounces@postel.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Richard Bennett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 31, 2019 8:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Scott O. Bradner <sob@sobco.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Internet History <internet-history@postel.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ih] Internet History - from Community to Big Tech?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One of the funniest bits of history about Ethernet is an interview where Bob Metcalfe said he and Boggs designed around passive cable because they felt a hub or switch would be a bottleneck. Given that the switch is an electronic device
that moves bits between other electronic devices this never made much sense. Can a NIC generate traffic faster than than a switch can relay it? And as we see with switching fabrics, the wire has been the bottleneck all along. <o:p></o:p></p>
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