Borje Ekholm Quotes

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

I'm a big believer in using the best IP for a given application.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

We have a highly competitive set of products and services ideally suited to the world of 5G.

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 had a core innovation that made it valuable: The ability to disseminate data over a distributed network in a way that was significantly cheaper than the prior methods.

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

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.

LTE has accelerated faster than most people had anticipated. It really took off very quickly from the time it was introduced. We did have our internal development road map, but we just needed to accelerate it.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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