Borje Ekholm Quotes

The routers get involved in this and they know that on the path between this router and that router a certain percentage of the bandwidth is reserved to these things and a certain percentage of it is allowed on a first come first served basis.

I was excited by the process of Pandora, which I still think is a decent product. Not as great in actuality as it sounds. After the first hour, its weaknesses start to show up.

Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.

I think anything which promotes heterogeneity on the Internet promotes stability. Diversity in services, service providers, and separating the layers of the networking stack are all important.

The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.

Reclassifying the Internet as a telecommunications service will have dangerous repercussions for years to come.

We should be careful and deliberate in how we allow public entry into our vibrant communications marketplace... This is an issue that should be left to our states.

But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there's going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.

Almost everything the FCC does is challenged in court. There is no clean solution because we have a Communications Act that wasn't written for broadband.

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

If I see anything remotely like a telcom-run faster internet that you have to pay more to get preferential traffic on, I'm out folks. I've seen this story before, I ran an ISP back in the late 90s.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

So the bandwidth issue is definitely a big concern of ours.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to 'be,' and everyone will end up there sooner or later.

The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.

The FCC banned throttling for good reason, namely that Internet service providers should not bias their networks toward some applications or classes of applications. Biasing the network interferes with user choice, innovation, decisions of application makers, and the competitive marketplace.

There is just one exception to the FCC's no-throttling rule - if a company can prove that throttling is 'reasonable network management.'

A rule against paid fast lanes would encourage additional capacity; a rule permitting paid fast lanes would simply encourage cable companies to create congested slow lanes on the Internet so they could make money by selling fast lanes to big companies.

Data can generally travel the speed of light unless networks are congested. When there's congestion, usually the cheapest and best thing is simply to add capacity generally, not to prioritize certain sites over others.

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

Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.

My philosophy is, if I can provide a solution that the end user truly enjoys, then I think I have a chance.

As long as we continue to bring in more traffic, I'm much more concerned with building a good user experience and developing tools that will help grow the Imgur community of users.