Network Management Quotes

I hate spam, and that's what happens when you let businesses onto the network.

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

When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.

FreeBSD has a nicely tuned network stack and extremely good reliability.

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

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.

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

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

Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While there is some truth to this, my guess is that the operators wished they could provide the same kind of services with the same success as Netflix and YouTube.

Internet service providers should not be permitted to block, throttle and unfairly favor certain content, applications, services or devices.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

My belief is that there will be very large numbers of Internet-enabled devices on the Net - home appliances, office equipment, things in the car and maybe things that you carry around. And since they're all on the Internet and Internet-enabled, they'll be manageable through the network, and so we'll see people using the Net and applications on the Net to manage their entertainment systems, manage their, you know, office activities and maybe even much of their social lives using systems on the Net that are helping them perform that function.

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.

here's a huge amount of work that goes into placating a network in regular television. It's literally 70% or 80% of your workload, is showing them the material, getting their notes and presenting it to them and making sure they weigh in. It's a huge amount of work.

In the press this week, NBC has been calling me every name in the book. In fact, they think I'm such an idiot they now want me to run the network.

Anybody who has spent time with the networks - in fact, you don't even have to spend time with the networks, all you have to do is just watch primetime TV - and you think, 'What the hell are they doing? I could run the network better.' And I think everybody feels that way.

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.

The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs.

In the Restoring Internet Freedom Order, the FCC strengthened its transparency rule so that Internet service providers must make public more information about their network management practices. They are required to make this information available either on their own website or on the FCC's website.

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

Any 'network neutrality' rule should be designed to forbid phone or cable companies from controlling the Internet.

Every podcast network has a different culture as far as I can tell. How they run things at Nerdist is totally different than how they run things at Earwolf is totally different than All Things Comedy or Maximum Fun or Feral Audio. And it's different if it's independent.

The FCC can't enforce press-statement principles without adopting official rules, and those rules must be based on the legal theory of reclassification.

Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some people not be able to get on the way they want to get on, but as long as people who are on the network are having a good experience, you're totally cool.

When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it's really not a question of if - it's a question of when.