Jerry Burchfiel is a Vice President for Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) active in the early design of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The Internet Protocol Suite (commonly TCP/IP) is the set of Communications protocols used for the Internet and other similar networks He has also designed and implemented the world's first mobile ad hoc networks and the paging subsystem for TENEX. A mobile ad-hoc network ( MANET) is a kind of Wireless ad-hoc network, and is a self-configuring network of mobile Routers (and associated hosts The TOPS-20 Operating system by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC was the second proprietary OS for the PDP-10.