My CISCO Journal

It's really amazing, how technology improves with the passage of time. It seems Moors law will be in action for a long time to come. The things are improving very fast from a processing perspective as well as improvements in design. Have you ever imagined how did the first packet router look? Back then it was called a packet switch as said by Leonard Kleinrock, the pioneer of packet switching. Do you know where did this revolution start? It was UCLA where the first packet switch was created. And now the time has gone so fast and we are moving towards Quantum Internet.  

It is always a simple beginning. 

Back then the speed of this packet switch was 50kbps!! It was the speed of the first router. This speed was considered the DSL like speed at that time. With the passage of time, the requirements for more speed and the huge amount of data processing pushed the tech minds to create more sophisticated packet switches.

In the early to mid-1980s, most Internet access was from personal computers and workstations directly connected to local area networks or from dial-up connections using modems and analog telephone lines. LANs typically operated at 10 Mbit/s and grew to support 100 and 1000 Mbit/s, while modem data rates grew from 1200 and 2400 bit/s in the 1980s, to 28 and 56 kbit/s by the mid to late 1990s.

You will be amazed to see how much the internet has progressed. Just check below the internet routing map: