Securing the Network
F. Scott Yeager and the
Rise of the Commercial Internet
SCOTT YEAGER – A HISTORY OF INNOVATION
Scott Yeager’s Reprivata cyber-security solution is grounded in his 30+ years as an innovator who has had a direct and profound impact on the shape and functionality of the internet. He is directly responsible for:
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Obtaining the first City Wide Franchise to build a competitive Fiber Optic network to compete with the local monopoly phone company (1987).
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Inventing the use of Local Area Network protocol Ethernet as a Service to interconnect systems, which fundamentally changed the telecom industry (1991).
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Co-creating “Metropolitan Area Exchange, East” (MAE-East) which fostered the commercialization of the Internet (1992).
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Establishing the First Commercial Streaming Media Service as MFS Datanet (1994).
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Conceiving the First Metered Application Services (MAS) (1996).
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Developing the First National Streaming and High-Speed Digital Application Services as Enron Communications (1998-99)
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Pioneering Distributed Application Server Systems now known as “cloud services” at Enron Broadband Services (1998-2000).
A Biography of F. Scott Yeager, and the history of the conception and development of today’s Commercial Internet.
by Nathan Gregory
