Borje Ekholm Quotes

Infrastructure should not only be about Highways but also about Information Highways! The way ahead lies in creating optical fibre networks.

Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted.

We feel there is already widespread broadband available today.

I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.

We have the global scale, but not everyone has 4G in the world.

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.

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.

Just as we have what used to be supercomputers in our pockets, our homes now require the telecommunications infrastructure of a small city.

Since Charles Dolan founded Cablevision in 1973, the Dolan family has been honored to help shepherd our customers and employees through the most extraordinary communications revolution in modern history.

The United States ran the table on Internet innovations, creating companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, Apple, Cisco, Twitter, Amazon, eBay, YouTube, and others. Europe and Japan scarcely contributed.

The bottom line is this: I want America to be at the forefront of innovation in the broadcast sector, the wireless sector, and every other sector of the communications industry.

In landlocked developing countries, geographical barriers to markets are unnecessarily accompanied by virtual ones: their e-connectivity rates are among the world's lowest.

What mattered in the cold war was weight - how big are your missiles? How heavy are your tanks? What matters in globalisation is speed. How fast is your modem? How good are you communications?

When we talk about national infrastructure, we often discuss roads and railroads, but as a matter of fact, mobile infrastructure is equally as important.

Along with Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, these companies are in a race to become our 'personal assistant.' They want to wake us in the morning, have their artificial intelligence software guide us through our days, and never quite leave our sides.

Cable and satellite businesses are competing against fixed-line telephone companies and wireless companies.

Who is my biggest competitor? AOL, Microsoft, and AT&TAtHome.

I think 5G is going to make a dramatic difference in sport and beyond.

When you look at the number of satellites, what they're doing and what they represent, it is really a vision of trying to have the world in your clutches.

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

I mean, I don't think the Facebook merger with WhatsApp and Instagram should have been approved. But I'm not for reflexively breaking up tech companies.

Well, the United States will continue to be a world leader in wireless communications.

We have the capital, the resources, and the technology that we need to build a mobile advertising platform across the planet.

When we travel to other countries, the Internet speed is so much slower. So I think in terms of technology, 5G and Internet speed, Korea has an absolute advantage over other countries.

We don't know which use cases will ultimately be the most important for 5G, but we know that early adopters tend to get a sustainable advantage.