[1] He is mainly credited with turning the Internet from a government project into something that proved to have scholarly and commercial interest for the rest of the world.

[2][1] For fourteen years, Wolff worked as a communications and technology researcher for the United States Army.

[4] In 1986, Wolff became Division Director for Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure at the National Science Foundation and worked on commercializing the Internet by building a government-funded network that extended the ARPANET design into the civilian world, and spinning it off to the private sector.

[6] In 1994, Wolff left NSF and joined Cisco where he helped with projects such as Internet2 and the Abilene Network.

Wolff's career at Cisco began as business development manager for the Academic Research and Technology Initiative program.