Daniel Lyons Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across.

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

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.

I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.

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

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

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

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.

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

We see opportunities in the networking and telecom space, including 5G, where we see accelerated investments.

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 Internet had a core innovation that made it valuable: The ability to disseminate data over a distributed network in a way that was significantly cheaper than the prior methods.

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.

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

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

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

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