Leonard Bosack

Leonard Bosack is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Cisco Systems and helped develop its early multiprotocol router technology.

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Sandy Lerner: Sandy Lerner is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Cisco Systems with Leonard Bosack. Lerner and Bosack co-founded Cisco and developed its early networking business.
Multiprotocol router: A network device that forwards traffic among networks using different communication protocols. Cisco’s early router product joined otherwise incompatible network systems.
Cisco Systems: Cisco Systems is an American technology company that makes networking hardware, software, and services. Bosack co-founded Cisco to commercialize technology for connecting computer networks.
Enterprise network: An enterprise network connects an organization’s users, devices, and systems across locations. Cisco’s routers became widely used to connect organizational networks.
William Yeager: William Yeager is a computer scientist who developed an early multiprotocol router at Stanford University. Yeager’s Stanford router work preceded and influenced the technology Bosack helped commercialize.
Internetworking: The interconnection of distinct computer networks so they can exchange data. Bosack’s router work addressed the problem of linking separate networks.
Stanford University computer network: Stanford University’s computer network connected campus computers and research systems. The need to connect Stanford’s separate networks prompted the founders’ router work.
Internet backbone: The internet backbone is the collection of high-capacity networks and links that carry large volumes of internet traffic. Router makers such as Cisco supplied equipment used in major network infrastructure.
Andy Bechtolsheim: Andy Bechtolsheim is a computer engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Sun Microsystems. Bechtolsheim was among the Stanford engineers involved in the early router project.
Internet Protocol: Internet Protocol is the network-layer protocol that addresses and routes packets across interconnected networks. IP became the common protocol carried across the networks Cisco routers connected.