About the Technical Reviewers
Doug Foster works in the area of packet voice, video, and data convergence. With 30 years of experience for companies such as Cisco, John Deere, and Alcatel and for private business, Doug has some interesting firsthand stories to tell about the evolution of the Internet. He has architected and helped install international networks, such as the migration of John Deere’s worldwide SNA business network into a multiprotocol intranet in the mid-1980s. As a result of that work, Doug was asked by the U.S. Department of Defense to speak at Interop ’88 on “How John Deere builds tractors using TCP/IP.” This was nearly a decade before most businesses began to leverage the value of the Internet and eCommerce applications. Most ...
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