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William "Bill" Yeager (born June 16, 1940, San Francisco) is an American engineer. He is an inventor of a packet-switched, "Ships in the Night", multiple-protocol router in 1981.
Mar 27, 2006 · William (Bill) Yeager is 66 and still gets peeved when someone trots out the Silicon Valley fable about how the founders of Cisco invented the router. He was the guy at Stanford University who...
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William Yeager is a US engineer and inventor of packet-switched routers, IMAP protocol, and JXTA technology. He has a PhD in mathematics and worked at Stanford, NASA, Sun, and Peerouette.
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William 'Bill' Yeager, an American engineer born in San Francisco, created the first multiple-protocol router in 1981. He was serving at Stanford's Knowledge Systems laboratory at the time, and dubbed the first creation 'Ships in the Night.'
William is best-known for being the inventor of a packet-switched, "Ships in the Night," multiple-protocol router in 1981, during his 20 year tenure at Stanford's Knowledge Systems Laboratory. The code was licensed by upstart Cisco Systems in 1987 and comprised the core of the first Cisco IOS.
