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Peter Löthberg (born 1960) is a Swedish technology entrepreneur. He played a role in the growth of the Internet in
Sweden
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and was the
de facto
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architect of
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(European Backbone), a pan-
European
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Internet backbone
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, during its lifetime. He was the designer of
Cisco
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's GSR12000 backbone
router technology and the TeraStream architecture, along with Guenter Honisch.
He was involved with
Sprint
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's Internet infrastructure strategy.
Löthberg is the owner of
telecommunications
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company Swedish Telecom Development and Product Innovation (STUPI).
Early life
Löthberg was born in 1960 in Karlstad, Sweden. He founded STUPI in the late 1970s before reaching the age of 20.
Career
He worked as a consultant for his town as well as the
Swedish Armed Forces
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. In the 1980s, he moved to
Stockholm
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and began developing
laser printer
Laser printing is an electrostatic digital printing process. It produces high-quality text and graphics (and moderate-quality photographs) by repeatedly passing a laser beam back and forth over a negatively-charged cylinder called a "drum" to d ...
technology. During this time he built a private mainframe center called the Colossal Cave Computer Center, near Mariatorget at Söder, consisting of DEC-10
minicomputers
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.
In 1993, Löthberg established a Swedish
NTP server
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using STUPI AB.
Löthberg submitted several patent applications to the
United States Patent and Trademark Office
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. While some are pending, others were granted, such as the technology used for monitoring optical performance in an optical data transmission network.
In the mid-1990s, Löthberg began working for Cisco and Sprint.
Since 2010, he has worked primarily for
Deutsche Telekom
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as a chief architect with the project TeraStream.
Personal life
He resides in Charlottesville, Virginia USA.
Works and recognition
Löthberg co-founded the Nordic University Computer Clubs Conference (NUCCC) together with Carl and Jacob Hallén. He made important contributions to the
Internet Engineering Task Force
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. Löthberg also leads the TU-stiftelsen, along with
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and
Olle E Johansson. The foundation operates the
Netnod Internet Exchange i Sverige, a Swedish independent Internet infrastructure organization.
In 2005, Löthberg was awarded the IP prize by the Swedish Network Users' Society (SNUS). In 2007, he installed a 40-gigabit Internet connection for his mother Sigbritt Löthberg, (reported as the world's fastest private Internet connection at that time) to prove a modulation technique that can transfer data between routers separated by a distance of 2,000 kilometers. She was able to download a
full high definition DVD
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in two seconds.
With the initiative, Löthberg sought to persuade ISPs to invest in Internet infrastructure that provides faster connections at lower cost. It was deployed in collaboration with Karlstad Stadsnät.
Peter Löthberg was in 2022 awarded the gold medal from
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences or ''Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien'' (IVA), founded on 24 October 1919 by King Gustaf V, is one of the royal academies in Sweden. The academy is an independent organisation, which promo ...
.
References
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1960 births
Living people
Swedish technology company founders