Network Reliability Quotes

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

The post office doesn't guarantee delivery, but it tries really hard. It's called best efforts communication. If you put two postcards in the post-box, they don't necessarily come out then in the same order that you put them in. So, that means that there's potentially disorder with your delivery, and that's also true in the Internet.

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.

5G is no longer just a buzzword.

The need for mission-critical, high-performance network continues to grow as companies and public sector organizations everywhere digitize their operations.

FreeBSD has a nicely tuned network stack and extremely good reliability.

I am convinced that as we move more towards cloud services, there is going to be a greater need for connectivity.

The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.

It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to mature. Of course, the whole industry is speaking of scale and a combination of scale in order to get more efficiency in the ecosystem.

5G will come. We can debate when in certain parts of the world. But it's quite clear that the race is heating up in North America and Northeast Asia.

We think that 5G will likely last longer and be deeper than first thought.

The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.

I'm a realist about how the networks work.

I'm a big believer in using the best IP for a given application.

I had better cellular coverage on a ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea than I have in many parts of Silicon Valley.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

5G is not going to replace 4G. 4G and 4.5G are going to coexist with 5G.

A worldwide web of electronic connections now moves data at ever-increasing speed and volume along what we call the information superhighway.

We know businesses can't compete without reliable infrastructure.

There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less than what you can get, for example, from optical fiber.

I get so frustrated when it takes longer than a couple of seconds to load a page - I couldn't live without the Internet now.

People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that.

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.