Vint Cerf Quotes

Older generations of Wi-Fi weren't quite robust enough to deliver video in the home without breaking up and losing packets and so forth. 5G Wi-Fi gives you extended reach, extended data rates, and more robust coverage.

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

5G is not going to replace 4G. 4G and 4.5G are going to coexist with 5G.

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.

5G is no longer just a buzzword.

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

5G will come. We can debate when in certain parts of the world. But it's quite clear that the race is heating up in North America and Northeast Asia.

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.

This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature.

Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house.

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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 problem with the mobile industry is that it deals with an intangible service which is largely similar across major players. Most consumers cannot tell the difference between Vodafone and Orange, or AT&T and Verizon in the U.S., beyond the colors and the logos. I suspect neither can the companies.

I love my DSL, but I love my WiFi more. And I probably get on the Internet 40 percent to 50 percent more because of the combination of those technologies.

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

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

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

For the user, it doesn't matter whether he is getting access on Wi-Fi, 3G or 2G networks. What matters is good connectivity, and as a technology provider, our job is to hide the complexity of the technology.