The earliest routers were really “just” computers with specialized hardware. How did the original router software develop, and what was the path from those early software packages to modern routers? Bill Yeager, one of the original developers of routing software, joins this episode of the History of Networking. https://historyofnetworking.s3.amazonaws.com/Bill+Yeager+-+Routing+Software.mp3
I recently sat with Kireeti Kompella and Gavin Cato to talk about current and future changes in network architecture over at SDXcentral. Enterprise network architectures are being reshaped using tenets popularized by the major cloud properties. How will the emergence of cloud, edge cloud, and multicloud shape networks? We explore this evolution and look at…
Facebook’s Backpack was one of the first efforts at creating a scalable open-source based Linux router. Yuval Bachar joins us for this episode of the History of Networking to explain how and why this interesting router was developed. https://historyofnetworking.s3.amazonaws.com/Yuval+Bachar+-+Backpack+And+The+History+Of+Whitebox+Routers.mp3