In June 1972, Bob Metcalfe, a 26-year-old engineer fresh out of graduate school, joined a new research lab in Palo Alto, California, as it set out to build something that few people could even imagine ...

Photonic says it’s trying to build the world’s first highly scalable fault-tolerant quantum computer. It’s doing so with a ...

Arista Networks' stellar revenue growth as a public company came largely at the expense of tech industry giant Cisco Systems, as Arista won cloud computing service providers as big customers. Now the ...

Bob Metcalfe has always been a believer in the power of networking. In the 1980s and 1990s he helped popularize the idea that a network’s value grows rapidly with the number of users, a precept now ...

Storage switch vendor McData Corp. Tuesday said it is acquiring Computer Network Technology Corp. in a $235 million deal. CNT is a leader in WAN extension and long-distance data replication technology ...

Juniper Networks, a provider of computer networking technology, announced today that it has acquired network security specialist Altor Networks for $95 million. Altor Networks specializes in providing ...

In the 1970s, Bob Metcalfe helped develop the primary technology that lets you send email or connect with a printer over an office network. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has covered the last five winners of ...