Replying to myself: I guess Grand Junction didn't come up with it. Probably Kalpana did? Grand Junction was just the first ethernet switch I heard of. (Also, e

Replying to myself: I guess Grand Junction didn't come up with it. Probably Kalpana did? Grand Junction was just the first ethernet switch I heard of. (Also, ethernet bridges were a thing at the time, and they are basically 2-port switches. But arguably a switch with a bunch of ports was a different way of thinking about how to do an Ethernet network.)