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Paul Baran - definition of Paul Baran in Encyclopedia (192 words) |
 | Paul Baran (born 1926) was one of the developers of packet switched networks with Donald Davies. |
| Baran developed his ideas for packet switched networks as a solution. |
| Baran also provided a spark of invention to the packet voice technology developed by StrataCom Inc. and the discrete multitone modem technology developed by Telebit. |
| Paul Baran (528 words) |
| Baran began an investigation into development of survivable communications networks, the results of which were first presented to the Air Force in the summer of 1961 as briefing B-265, then as paper P-2626, and then as a series of eleven comprehensive papers titled On Distributed Communications in 1964. |
| Baran's 1964 series of papers then influenced Roberts and Kleinrock to adopt the technology for development of the ARPANET network a few years later, laying the groundwork that leads to its continued use today by TCP/IP on the Internet today.. |
| Baran later left RAND to become an entrepreneur and private investor in the early 1970's, and founded Metricom, co-founded Com21.com, and co-founded the Institute for the Future. |
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