Ethernet celebrated at world summit

Leading innovators, top-level executives from international telecommunications and networking agencies are meeting this week in Mountain View, California, to celebrate 40 years of the Ethernet, a computer networking technology and architecture for local area networks (LANs).

The event "NetEvents - Global Press Analyst Summit" runs from May 21 to 24 and is being attended by the movers and shakers in cyber world business as well as researchers and academics in the field.

Ethernet inventors Bob Metcalfe and Dave Boggs came along to the international summit and recounted the early history of the Ethernet. Metcalfe gave the opening keynote presentation, explaining his early choices and challenges and what is called 'Metcalfe's Law.'

The summit is one of the major functions organised to celebrate the 40 years of the Ethernet. Other events include the Ethernet Innovation Conference and Innovation Award 2013.

On May 23, the keynote speech will focus on the vision for the Internet age, informing participants "where the Internet might at best take us and what are the human and societal factors that could disrupt that progress."

The floor will then be handed over to presentations on the relationship between Ethernet and the Cloud, as content and telecommunication providers scramble to build a data centre that offers comprehensive software and platform services. However, questions still remains on how to deliver Cloud services widely, reliably and securely to the client base.

Another session is entitled "The enemy at work, in the home and on the network." The speakers, who are top security solution vendors, will talk about whether Ethernet, the world's common business language, has become the common language of crime. They will also explain what their companies and the industry are doing to meet the challenges of increasingly sophisticated cyber crimes.

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