Brian Roberts Quotes

To say that Wi-Fi is a critical component of Internet access in today's always-connected society doesn't do it justice.

I love my DSL, but I love my WiFi more. And I probably get on the Internet 40 percent to 50 percent more because of the combination of those technologies.

Wifi was never supposed to be a big thing and certainly not a thing that would become as vital to a home as indoor plumbing.

Some people are using landline connections and dial-up modems to call ISPs in other countries and get onto the Internet. Still others are using satellite connections.

The Internet is no longer the kind of thing where only six guys in the world can build it. Now, you can write a couple of checks and get one of your own.

By 1988, I'm seeing this commercial phenomenon beginning to show up. Hardware makers are selling routers to universities so they can build up their campus networks. So I remember thinking, 'Well, how are we going to get this in the hands of the general public?' There were no public Internet services at that point.

The Internet works thanks to loose but trusted connections among its many constituent parts, with easy entry and exit for new Internet service providers or new forms of expanding access.

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

Older generations of Wi-Fi weren't quite robust enough to deliver video in the home without breaking up and losing packets and so forth. 5G Wi-Fi gives you extended reach, extended data rates, and more robust coverage.

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

So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

The next Internet could be in the making somewhere in someone's lab.

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.

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.

This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature.

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

Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house.

But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.

The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.

Regardless of the technology, we at Cisco believe that there is a need to 'connect the unconnected,' whether it is using 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi. We are working on enabling heterogeneous access across different technologies. The basic need to 'connect to unconnected' still remains.

Broadband companies can have great success offering access to the unfettered Internet.

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

5G goes beyond the regular operator business; it's a business revolution.

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