Vint Cerf Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The basic technical protocols that have enabled the Internet to work in such a globally interconnected way are developed and shared openly by a community of engineers.

I'm a realist about how the networks work.

5G cell networks create a whole new wave of distributed and edge computing.

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

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.

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

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

I would say that in general, Cisco is a very strong research and development organization.

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.

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

One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.

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

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.

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