[102266] in North American Network Operators' Group
Jeanette Symons (1962-2008) a commerical Internet Pioneer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Lee)
Sun Feb 3 00:42:57 2008
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:17:59 -0600
From: "John Lee" <John@internetassociatesllc.com>
To: "Nanog" <nanog@merit.edu>
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It was with great sadness that I read about the un-timely death of my =
friend and colleague Jeanette in a plane crash in Maine. Jeanette died =
flying, which was one of the activities she loved to do. I meet her =
before she started flying and when she moved back to California she took =
up flying. We would be talking on the phone and she would say that it =
was VFR and she needed to go. VFR - Visual Flight Rules for flying =
without instruments which was all she was rated for at the time.=20
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I meet Jeanette at Hayes Microcomputer Products where we were working on =
a project together. People would think that we were brother and sister =
since we both had curly back hair and looked alike. When she wanted to =
move back to California, which she missed, I introduced her to Rob Ryan =
the head of Haye's West coast operations. When she was in Georgia we =
would eat Chinese, made by my wife, at my place. When we were in =
California we would eat Sushi at several of her favorite places in =
Western San Francisco and Oakland.
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Jeanette, Rob, Jay Duncanson and Steve Speckenbach left Hayes to start =
Ascend Communications and developed the TNT central site dial up modem, =
ISDN and Ethernet switch that handled most of the dial up Internet =
traffic for years. Ascend was purchased by Lucent and she and Mori =
started Zhone Technologies.
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Her new venture was started because her children wanted to blog with =
their friends and she was worried about them being on line.
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Jeanette will be missed.
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John Lee
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where we were working on a project together. People would think that we =
were brother and sister since we both had curly back hair and looked =
alike. When she wanted to move back to <st1:State w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
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introduced her to Rob Ryan the head of Haye’s West coast =
operations. When she was in <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
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Chinese, made by my wife, at my place. When we were in <st1:State =
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New Roman" size=3D3>Jeanette, Rob, Jay Duncanson and Steve Speckenbach =
left Hayes to start Ascend Communications and developed the TNT central =
site dial up modem, ISDN and Ethernet switch that handled most of the =
dial up Internet traffic for years. Ascend was purchased by Lucent and =
she and Mori started Zhone Technologies.</FONT></P>=0A=
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