The use of switched network environments to forward digital data transmission packets known as frames is a very basic concept in networking and telecommunications. Network switches work to direct ...

As important as Spanning Tree has been to the acceptance and spread of Ethernet, making it possible to link Ethernet segments without creating loops and packet storms, its inventor, Radia Perlman, ...

As computer networks get bigger, it becomes increasingly hard to keep track of the flow of data over this network. How do you route data, making sure that the data is spread to all parts of the ...

Some people refer to Sun Labs distinguished engineer Radia Perlman as the Mother of the Internet and the creator of the spanning tree algorithm used by bridges and switches. Others know her as the ...

While the history of Internet development involves many names and was not reliant on a single discovery, it is also true that certain innovations have done more to enable better networks for all. It ...

The computer network on which you're working and playing functions because Radia Perlman figured out how to prevent computer network disasters. She did it in one afternoon. Nearly 40 years ago, ...

Internet pioneer Radia Perlman will deliver the second keynote at the upcoming Australian national Linux conference in Canberra. Perlman is known for her work on the ethernet spanning tree protocol, ...

“My designs were so simple people assumed I just had easy problems,” says Radia Perlman, a software designer, network engineer, and Internet pioneer. But in fact, the tough problems she solved helped ...