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Vint Cerf, a ‘father of the internet’, still isn’t completely sold on 5G
A Q&A with Vint Cerf.
First question, 5G as a broadband alternative for homes and businesses. You sounded a little down on that.
It’s only because I’m worried about 6 gigahertz versus 28 gigahertz. The studies that have been done from the DoD show the 28 gigahertz is very costly, still requires a great deal of fiber interconnect, and might put us in a poor competitive position with regard to serving the rest of the world.
The first online message was sent 50 years ago. How has the internet evolved since then?
Fifty years ago, two letters were transmitted online, forever altering the way that knowledge, information and communication would be exchanged. On Oct. 29, 1969, Leonard Kleinrock, a professor of computer science at UCLA, and his graduate student Charley Kline wanted to send a transmission from UCLA's computer to another computer at Stanford Research Institute through ARPANET, the precursor to what we now know as the internet. ARPANET connected universities working for the Department of Defense under its ARPA (now DARPA) program for new military technologies.
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