Leonard X Bosack was born on 1952 and is a co-founder of Cisco Systems, an American-based multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking and communications technology, and services.
11 Facts About Leonard Bosack
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Leonard Bosack was awarded the Computer Entrepreneur Award in 2009 for co-founding Cisco Systems and pioneering and advancing the commercialization of routing technology and the profound changes this technology enabled in the computer industry.
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Leonard Bosack is largely responsible for pioneering the widespread commercialization of local area network technology to connect geographically disparate computers over a multiprotocol router system, which was an unheard-of technology at the time.
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In 1973, Leonard Bosack graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science, and joined the Digital Equipment Corporation as a hardware engineer.
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Leonard Bosack's contribution was to work on the network router that allowed the computer network under his management to share data from the Computer Science Lab with the Business School's network.
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Leonard Bosack met his wife Sandra Lerner at Stanford, where she was the manager of the Business School lab, and the couple married in 1980.
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In 1984, Leonard Bosack co-founded Cisco Systems with his then partner Sandy Lerner.
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Leonard Bosack produced revolutionary technology such as the first multiport router-specific line cards and sophisticated routing protocols, giving them domination over the market-place.
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Leonard Bosack became a key contributor to the emerging ARPAnet, which was the beginning of today's Internet.
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Leonard Bosack was inspired by his belief that by leveraging the inherent, but often untapped, physics of fiber optic components, data transmission speeds can be increased with devices that use less power, less space and require less cooling.
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In December 2001, a Mercury News article cited that a Stanford web site credits only Leonard Bosack and Lerner with developing the device that allowed computer networks to communicate intelligently with one another, despite Cisco spokeswoman Jeanette Gibson's claim that it was a group effort.