Silverton
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Silverton is the name of:
- Silverton, Colorado
- Silverton, Oregon
- Silverton, Ohio
- Silverton, Texas
- Silverton Township, Minnesota
- Silverton, New South Wales
- Silverton, Devon, UK
- Railroad:
- The Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad [1] (http://www.durangosilvertonrailroad.com/) is a vintage, coal-fired, steam powered locomotive that travels through the breathtakingly scenic San Juan National Forest.
- People:
- Silverton, AnneMarie's Border Collies [2] (http://www.silverton.net/) have won multiple Best In Shows, have won 3 out of 4 Nationals and the only Regional Specialty since Border Collies were recognized, has had the Number 1 Border Collie in Breed or All-Breed, or both systems since they were recognized. The only Border Collies to have placed in the Herding Group at the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, winning two Group 2s with two different dogs. She has owned or bred multiple obedience trial champions, herding champions, agility champions, advanced tracking degrees, and of course multiple breed champions, and many other successes too numerous to mention here.
- Silverton, Michael [3] (http://www.google.com/search?q=%22michael+silverton%22+%2Bethernet), of Stanford University conceived of and sequentially built the world's first 10Mbps, 100Mbps, and 1000Mbps all optical Ethernet To The Home (ETTH) networks in Palo Alto, California in 1999 to 2000; the result of research and work that first began in 1991 in Phoenix, Arizona. Fiberhood Networks, Inc.[4] (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://fiberhood.net), a Silicon Valley company championed by Silverton, and co-founded with fellow Stanford alumnis Sinuhe Hardegree and Jonathan Usuka, along with Palo Alto innovators Christopher Lein, Chris Minchberg, Keith Cooley, and Joe Villareal, utterly failed financially and cost Silverton his personal life savings, but the engineering success and ensuing industry enthusiasm from the likes of Pirelli, Corning, France Telecom, Telstra, SBC and industry standards groups like the IEEE [5] (http://www.ieee802.org/3/efm/) proved the first field operational implemenation of what would become prototypical of the future All Ethernet consumer-grade network. Today's cable and DSL providers are clamouring toward various adaptations of this model using a variety of increasingly diverse technological solutions that include but are by no means limited to commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) active Ethernet, Ethernet Passive Optical Networking (EPON), and wireless Ethernet (WiFi). It remains to be seen just how Ethernet To The Home will be ultimately and universally delivered, but as with so many world changing technologies, the inevitability of ETTH, and indeed consumer level Ethernet Everywhere, was established and first realized in a plain Palo Alto, California garage in 1999.