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How we made the modern Ethernet

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The spanning tree protocol is a key component of today’s Ethernet. Radia Perlman, inventor of the underlying algorithm, recounts how it was first developed.

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Fig. 1: Topology of a spanning tree network.

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    Radia Perlman

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Perlman, R. How we made the modern Ethernet. Nat Electron 1, 570 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-018-0153-6

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