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Designed TRILL to improve Ethernet routing.
TRILL combined routing techniques with Ethernet to use bandwidth more efficiently than spanning-tree paths.
GOTDONE ARCHIVE · 1951 to present
3 public itemsRadia Perlman
Network engineer and computer scientist
PHOTO: Scientist-100 / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain ↗Designed quiet, resilient protocols that let large networks organize themselves and keep moving data.
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Designed the spanning tree algorithm.
The protocol allowed Ethernet networks to grow beyond a single shared wire while avoiding forwarding loops.
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Designed the IS-IS routing protocol.
The link-state design remains widely deployed for routing IP traffic.