Cisco’s Kirk Lougheed and IBM’s Yakov Rekhter sketch out BGP over lunch at a 1989 Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting. Their networking innovation, still an essential routing protocol for the global Internet, is as integral today as it was when originally deployed, enabling efficient routing and dramatic growth.
Kirk Lougheed, co-creator and Cisco's employee number 4, explains how BGP came to be.
A customer newsletter The Packet launches to connect customers and users with the fast changing company. Cisco's early success is in part thanks to our openess to customer needs, suggestions, and criticisms in product development and use.
A customer newsletter The Packet launches to connect customers and users with the fast changing company. Cisco's early success is in part thanks to our openess to customer needs, suggestions, and criticisms in product development and use.
This early video features our first four products: the AGS (Advanced Gateway Server), MGS (Midsized Gateway Server), CGS (Compact Gateway Server), and the mini-chassis STS-10.
This early video features our first four products: the AGS (Advanced Gateway Server), MGS (Midsized Gateway Server), CGS (Compact Gateway Server), and the mini-chassis STS-10.
A slogan of early cisco proclaims "it's not just a job, it's a wardrobe" as t-shirts were a common give-away item.
A slogan of early cisco proclaims "it's not just a job, it's a wardrobe" as t-shirts were a common give-away item.
