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Leonard Bosack | |
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| Born | 1952 (age 72–73) Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania Stanford University |
| Known for | Co-Founder of Cisco Systems |
| Spouse | Sandy Lerner (divorced) |
Leonard X. Bosack (born 1952) is a co-founder of Cisco Systems, an American-based multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking and communications technology, and services. His net worth is approximately $200 million. [1] He was awarded the Computer Entrepreneur Award in 2009 for co-founding Cisco Systems and pioneering and advancing the commercialization of routing technology and the profound changes this technology enabled in the computer industry.[1]
He is largely responsible for pioneering the widespread commercialization of local area network (LAN) technology to connect geographically disparate computers over a multiprotocol router system, which was an unheard-of technology at the time. In 1990, Cisco's management fired Cisco co-founder Sandy Lerner and Bosack resigned.[2] As of 2010[update], Bosack was the CEO of XKL LLC, a privately funded engineering company which explores and develops optical networks for data communications.[3]
- ^ a b "Computer Entrepreneur Award" Archived December 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. IEEE Computer Society. Accessed December 30, 2010.
- ^ "Len Bosack 2009 Computer Entrepreneur Award Recipient". IEEE Computer Society. Accessed December 30, 2010.
- ^ "About" Archived October 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. XKL LLC. Accessed December 30, 2010.