Michael K. Powell Quotes

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.

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.

I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.

I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

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

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

In a sense, communications networks can be defined entirely by who has cryptographic keys, and I think a lot of networks will work that way in the future.

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.