How My Training As An Inventioneer Altered Ethernet
Everyone said it was impossible. Engineers laughed and called it ‘The Billings Folly’ — as a joke. Then the entire internet adopted it, and now the whole world uses it.
Dr. Roger Billings tells the inside story of how full duplex gigabit Ethernet was invented, rejected at IEEE standards meetings, and eventually became the global standard behind modern internet, streaming video, and AI.
Discover the inventions that made it possible — the concentrator, the equalizer circuit, and the balanced hybrid circuit — and hear what happened when Ron Crane, the father of Ethernet himself, stepped in to defend it.
About DrB
Dr. Roger Billings is a visionary innovator whose work has touched the lives of millions of students and transformed the landscape of education. Widely known as “DrB” to the countless kids who benefit from his groundbreaking Acellus learning system, Dr. Billings has dedicated his life to advancing education through technology.
As part of DrB’s lifelong commitment to supporting education, Science LIVE was launched as a way to “give back” by mentoring students in conjunction with the Roger Billings Scholarship Program.
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what i learned today was that the ethernet had too many collusion but someone came up with a idea to make the ethernet better then ever
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where did he word Ethernet come from.
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What was the process to creating the injection made to help deaf people?
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It’s interesting how Roger Billings was able to discover Ethernet & make it faster, along with getting rid of all the collisions in Ethernet.
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This week, they talked more about the internet and Ron C.
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Learned about the internet
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How do GPUs (Graphical Processing Unit) like the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TI work?
i wonder that too
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Love learning about the Ethernet.
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I love finding solutions to problems. My mom challenges me to do 1 hard thing every day and put effort in. I also love to create and design outfits. Does that make me an inventioneer?
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so Mr billings helped create our modern internet thats awesome i dont know what id do without it lol
Will we be learning about other science things?
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Hi this is Ally from Louisiana, and I just wanted to say I love the Acellus academy I think it is such a great idea I hated being homeschooled until i started doing Acellus. I do soccer and Acellus helps me be able to play soccer while still doing all of my school and the best part is I am getting all a’s in my classes. I just wanted to say thank u Dr. Roger Billing for making Acellus and allowing me to learn through Acellus. Thanks! 😊
Hold on a minute Dr Roger Billings altererd Ethernet.
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What was the process to create the injection for deaf people?
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Hi from Iowa
I never knew this is how the internet worked and data was sent. I always wondered how data entered a hub if more than one set of data was sent at the same time.
If we never had people like Rodger Billings, we would not even have computers, let alone ethernet.
Solving collision problems.