If you've accessed the Internet in the past two decades, chances are you've done so through a network address translation (NAT) device. Where did it come from? Join us as we hear the unbelievable story first hand from the pioneers that were making it happen, and how the Internet itself was changed forever.

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00:00 — California
00:28 — 1992
01:23 — IP address space
04:14 — Paul Francis
04:43 — Public vs Private networks
05:03 — Network address translation
06:41 — End-to-end principle
07:49 — JMA
09:15 — Three solutions
11:25 — Inventing a NAT device
14:57 — NTI and the PIX Firewall
17:02 — Cisco
17:56 — The triumph of the PIX
19:12 — Looking back
21:17 — Outro

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