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Whatever happened to Google Fiber for Communities?
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If we don't hear by the end of the year as Google promised, the pitchforks and torches will come out of storage.
I was surprised that we weren't on the list. Be interesting to see what the next city to get residential fiber is.
Stanford faculty is getting it
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
Google Cache: http://goo.gl/FN2W4
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So... it looks like the GFIOS project is moving forward.
About two weeks ago I was walking from my house in SF and at 20th and Douglass ( http://goo.gl/WD2SX ) I saw 4 "HP Communications" trucks ( 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 Google Cache: htt…
About two weeks ago I was walking from my house in SF and at 20th and Douglass ( http://goo.gl/WD2SX ) I saw 4 "HP Communications" trucks ( 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 Google Cache: htt…
If this is indeed for Google, then congratulations San Francisco!
About two weeks ago I was walking from my house in SF and at 20th and Douglass ( http://goo.gl/WD2SX ) I saw 4 "HP Communications" trucks ( 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 Google Cache: htt…
If this is indeed for Google, then congratulations San Francisco!
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.