Audrey MacLean Quotes

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.

Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.

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.

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

I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.

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

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.

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

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.

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.

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

Remember, the Cloud is just someone else's server.

The Internet wasn't useful until some basic infrastructure was built.

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

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

Cloud computing is a fact of life.

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.

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

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

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.

The availability of reliable and redundant communications is critical for our public safety.