In June 1972, Bob Metcalfe, a 26-year-old engineer fresh out of graduate school, joined a new research lab in Palo Alto, California, as it set out to build something that few people could even imagine ...

The new era of Silicon Valley runs on networking—and not the kind you find on LinkedIn. As the tech industry funnels billions into AI data centers, chip makers both big and small are ramping up ...

David Boggs, an electrical engineer and computer scientist who helped create Ethernet, the computer networking technology that connects PCs to printers, other devices and the internet in offices and ...

Arista Networks' stellar revenue growth as a public company came largely at the expense of tech industry giant Cisco Systems, as Arista won cloud computing service providers as big customers. Now the ...

Storage switch vendor McData Corp. Tuesday said it is acquiring Computer Network Technology Corp. in a $235 million deal. CNT is a leader in WAN extension and long-distance data replication technology ...

In the 1970s, Bob Metcalfe helped develop the primary technology that lets you send email or connect with a printer over an office network. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has covered the last five winners of ...

Thanks to the invention he helped create in the 1970s, people can send email over an office network or visit a website through a coffee shop hot spot. By Cade Metz David Boggs, an electrical engineer ...