Ethernet Summit

February 11, 2013

Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth — Bob Metcalfe: How Token Ring and “IBM’s arrogance” nearly sank Big Blue

The Reg had the opportunity to sit down with Bob to discuss the history of Ethernet, its advantages over Token Ring, and IBM’s perfidy.

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40/100 GbE | convergence | cloud computing | virtualization | big data – they’re all at ETS, plus two full days of free SDN seminars

Learn from the experts: Intel | Broadcom | IBM | HP | Cisco | Brocade | IDC | Dell | Equinix | Synopsys | Cadence | Tektronix | Agilent | Huawei…and many others

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Claudio DeSanti
Cisco Systems
Conference Chairperson

Highlights

Three days packed full of seminars, forums, keynotes, and sessions:

  • Two full-day seminars of Software-Defined Networking (SDN)/OpenFlow
  • Full-day forums on 40/100/400 GbE and convergence on Ethernet
  • Half-day forums on data centers, virtualization, and cloud computing
  • Chat with the Experts

2013 Networking Innovation Leader Awards

Thursday, April 4 at 1 p.m. in Exhibition Hall »

Exhibit / Sponsor / Present

Don’t miss this opportunity to participate in this power-packed three-day event! Take advantage of this opportunity to network with members of the Ethernet ecosystem. Here’s how you can participate:

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Speakers

John D’Ambrosia
John D’Ambrosia
Chief Ethernet Evangelist
Dell
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Guido Appenzeller
Co-Founder & CEO
Big Switch Networks

Arpit Joshipura
Arpit Joshipura
Vice President of Product Marketing
Dell Networking
Jane Li
Jane Li
Chief Operating Officer
Huawei Enterprise - US

Nick Ilyadis
Nick Ilyadis
VP/CTO Infrastructure and Networking Group
Broadcom
Eyal Waldman
Eyal Waldman
Chairman, President and CEO
Mellanox

Alan Weckel
Alan Weckel
VP Enterprise and Data Center Market Research
Dell’Oro Group
David Yen
David Yen
SVP and GM of Cisco's Data Center Group
Gisco

Sponsors

Cisco Dell Comcast Huawei IXIA Big Switch Networks Cadence napatech Synopsys Tektronix