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Whatever happened to Google Fiber for Communities?
Last I heard was that they were going to make an announcement this year. Well, time is running short and I can't even find a "We'll be announcing Q1, 2011". Anyone know what happened to it?
- shotgun 16y agoWe're all waiting for Google to make their announcement. At least everyone in Duluth is! http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/11/09/google-duluth-broadband-network/ http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/11/09/goog... If we don't hear by the end of the year as Google promised, the pitchforks and torches will come out of storage.
- toephu 16y agolol
- chopsueyar 16y agoCome on North Dakota!
- pat2man 16y agoHah!
- f1gm3nt 16y agoYou can already get Fiber in Chattanooga, TN =) I was surprised that we weren't on the list. Be interesting to see what the next city to get residential fiber is.
- epochwolf 16y agoYay! Green Bay, WI is on the list.
- juiceandjuice 16y agohttp://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=19013 http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=19013 Stanford faculty is getting it
- jedc 16y agoThat's separate from the Google Fiber for Communities project. I haven't seen any news on that since all the applications were submitted. I'm sure the selection / due diligence / contracting process is ridiculously complex, though! I would assume it would be a while before anything was announced.
- wmf 16y agoMy impression is that the Stanford project is the first (or perhaps zeroth) phase of the Google Fiber for Communities project. They can probably learn a lot rolling out "minimum viable fiber" to ~100 homes before they try to do thousands. It wouldn't seem to make sense for Google to have multiple competing fiber projects.
- phlux 16y agoAbout two weeks ago I was walking from my house in SF and at 20th and Douglass (http://goo.gl/WD2SX http://goo.gl/WD2SX) I saw 4 "HP Communications" trucks (http://www.hpcomminc.com/ http://www.hpcomminc.com/) installing multi-strand fiber on the telco poles. I asked "What are you installing?" "Fiber." "For Google?" :) "Yeah." "The home project?" "Yeah." Check out this "Confidential" PDF: http://www.hpcomminc.com/pdf/Revised_Intro_Draft.pdf http://www.hpcomminc.com/pdf/Revised_Intro_Draft.pdf Google Cache: http://goo.gl/FN2W4 http://goo.gl/FN2W4 --- So... it looks like the GFIOS project is moving forward.
- JakeSc 16y agoIf this is indeed for Google, then congratulations San Francisco!
- phlux 16y agoYes, I couldn't tell if the guy that I asked the questions was just yes-ing me away...
- Nrsolis 16y agoI'm not so sure how I feel about this. On one hand, this is a direct shot across the bow of the cablecos/telcos. By essentially taking the roadmap of bandwidth expansion via slow, rolling upgrades over a long long period of time and going straight to the ultimate destination, GOOG is sucking a whole lot of "value" out of the existing infrastructure. On the other hand, this will place enormous stress on the regional/long haul networks which I'll be forced to upgrade yet again. Unless they can charge more, this cant be good news for level3 or VZ or T. I forsee an acceleration towards metered b/w in our future.
- phlux 16y agoIm less concerned about metered BW than I am every single farking packet I create passing through the hands of a deeply technically capable company that is google. Will digital freedom exist in the future? in 20 years, will the thought police/BB be monitoring every action, input and response? [Edit: More-so than now, with Eschelon?] Sure, the google "Free Candy" van looks really enticing now - but what about once I get in and am too far into the trip to say no?
- paul9290 16y agoIs verizon fios not fiber to the home?
- metageek 16y agoYeah, and it's been so unprofitable they've stopped installing it in new towns.
- Gimpson 16y agoBut it seems like they're continuing the build out in areas they've started. I see Verizon FIOS trucks rolling around LA almost every day.
- metageek 16y agoThat would make sense; it probably costs less to extend service around an existing hub than to start from scratch.
- tibbon 16y agoAny idea of which part is unprofitable? Too much bandwidth used, or is it that they aren't getting enough people in each area onboard?
- oogali 16y agoI'm curious what name Google is operating under the California PUC (and San Francisco PUC) with. You can't just show up with large bundles of fiber and hang 'em from the utility poles in jurisdictions that regulate pole attachments.
- jsz0 16y agoGoogle presently has some job postings for FTTH engineering and field operations positions. Looks to me like they're still in the early stages of putting this project together. I put my resume in just for the hell of it though I haven't worked with FTTH G-PON much only cable HFC & some FTTH RFoG. Worth a shot eh?
- slipstream 16y agoFollow-up: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-on-google-fiber.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-on-google-fibe...