Yet another example of how government research drives modern innovation, and how the latest assault on it by the Trump administration will wipe out decades of innovation in the US
It's also apparent that Xerox's involvement and willingness to share it's new inventions in Ethernet with a University eager to form the early Internet played a huge part in driving this outcome.
It seems almost completely incidental that we got an early implementation of a protocol router out of this. The government certainly wasn't trying to create one and I'm sure if they had actually involved themselves in that effort we would have gotten something far worse and far more costly.
Since the administration wasn't capable and didn't create the innovation in the first place you probably don't need to worry about later administrations removing it.
As the article starts, that's not how Cisco, and by extension a lot of Cisco employees, tell it. To a whole lot of people, Trump is just clearing out lazy hangers on who are preventing real innovation.
Cisco's story is two people working alone in their garage creating IP routing.
this, too, mentions Yeager as the initial developer, and that CISCO licensed and enhanced his work from Stanford.