The history of AS1

Wednesday, April 16. 2008

von Fredy Künzler

I stumbled across a document about the history of AS1 today in a blog entry of Renesys and I thought it's worth to share:

[...] AS1 was originally assigned to Bolt, Beranek & Newman (BBN), a pioneering company in the field of network packet technology. BBN engineers are credited with developing the earliest routers, with sending the world’s first e-mail and with establishing the “@” convention used in all e-mail sent today. Through a series of subsequent corporate transactions, ownership of AS1 passed to Genuity, Inc., a communications company whose assets were acquired by Level 3 in February 2003. [...]

Posted by Fredy Künzler in Networks at 11:36 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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