Bernard L. Schwartz Quotes

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 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 am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

I really enjoy computer networking.

Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.

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.

By 1988, I'm seeing this commercial phenomenon beginning to show up. Hardware makers are selling routers to universities so they can build up their campus networks. So I remember thinking, 'Well, how are we going to get this in the hands of the general public?' There were no public Internet services at that point.

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.

When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash.

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

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.

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.

We covered every major segment of this broadband communications world.

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.

Traditional PCs face competition from specialty products like Palm Pilots and from the servers that provide the nodes in computer networks. Microsoft's Windows CE hasn't done too well in the specialty-device market, and its Windows NT faces strong competition for server customers.

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.

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