Michael K. Powell Quotes

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

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

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

I really enjoy computer networking.

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.

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.

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

I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.

Choosing a single most important development is incredibly hard to do because a lot of different things had to happen before the Internet could be deployed in the fashion it is today.

The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.

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

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

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

I go back to when we met with the late Steve Jobs. He couldn't understand why we didn't put Wi-Fi in every cable set box. And I literally went home and said, 'Tell me again - what's Wi-Fi?'

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

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

Berners-Lee started the World Wide Web as a set of protocols for transferring, linking and addressing documents to send over the Net. Without the global reach and open technical standards of the Internet, the Web could never have proliferated as it did.

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.

Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home.