Brian Acton Quotes

It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible.

Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home.

Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some people not be able to get on the way they want to get on, but as long as people who are on the network are having a good experience, you're totally cool.

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

I really enjoy computer networking.

Companies that are hosting Web sites or do a lot of teleconferencing need a lot of bandwidth going both ways.

You cannot prevent collisions if the data that can prevent them is still making its way through the network.

I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.

Any time you build a network, you have to help users find their friends.

I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.

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.

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.

For the user, it doesn't matter whether he is getting access on Wi-Fi, 3G or 2G networks. What matters is good connectivity, and as a technology provider, our job is to hide the complexity of the technology.

I'm a realist about how the networks work.

When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it's really not a question of if - it's a question of when.

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

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

Streaming is something that's going to require tons of billions of dollars of investment, building server farms close to users and 5G and everything else.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.

The first commercial routers came out about 1986, and services came in 1987.

As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.

Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.