Google Offering Internet...Ultra-High Speed

[Firefox]

1 gigabit per second! (8 gigabits = 1 gigabyte) Want to nominate your community for this service? Go to: http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi

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Google to offer 'ultra high-speed' broadband in US


Google will be lighting fibre around the US

Google is spreading its wings in yet another direction - this time as a network provider, offering super-fast broadband to thousands of US homes.

It plans to build a fibre-optic network offering speeds of up to 1Gbps (gigabit per second) to up to 500,000 homes.
It said it would compete on price with other broadband providers offering much slower speeds.

Google said the trial was about promoting killer apps that would take advantage of fast speeds.
"We planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States," the search giant said in its blog.

"We plan to offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people. We'll deliver internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today," it continued.

Growing Google

Google is controlling more aspects of the web experience

Google already has a fibre network which connects its data centres, speeds up search and lowers the cost of streaming video on YouTube.
Now it plans to take this to the next stage and connect that network directly to consumers' homes.
The network will be available for any service provider to use and Google is asking interested parties, from local government as well as members of the public, to sign up to the plan.
The offer is part of Google's expansion into controlling all aspects of a web user's experience.

In late 2009 Google offered a service called public DNS, which it said would speed up web browsing for users.
The domain name system is a series of databases that translate web addresses intio computer readable numbers called IP addresses.
"The average Internet user ends up performing hundreds of DNS lookups each day, and some complex pages require multiple DNS lookups before they start loading," Google wrote in a blog at the time. "This can slow down the browsing experience."
DNS requests are usually handled by a person's Internet Service Provider (ISP).

In November 2009, the search giant also announced that it was working on a project to develop a faster version of http - which Google call SPDY - to speed up the transfer of content over the web.
At the time, the firm said its lab tests had shown that web pages loaded "up to 55% faster" using the protocol.
The US, in common with countries around the world, is grappling with the best way to roll out next generation broadband.
In the first month of his office President Obama promised to spend $7.2bn on new broadband infrastructure.
The pot of money is available for smaller broadband providers and municipalities.
For Drew Clark, editor of US broadband comparison website BroadbandCensus, the impact of Google's entry into the broadband market will depend on how many homes the network serves.
"If it is 50,000 homes then that isn't a lot. But if it is 500,000 then that is a statement to say it is in the market place competing with the likes of Verizon," he said.

Verizon has made big investments in fibre networks, with plans to pass 18 million homes with its fibre-optic service by the end of the year.
Rival AT&T has 17 million households in its network but its fibre network does not run all the way to the home.
Google said it hopes its fibre network will act as a testbed for new applications.

Andrew Ferguson, editor of UK broadband website ThinkBroadband speculated as to what some of those killer apps could be.
"One idea would be to expand Google Streetview, so that you can play a movie of a route you wanted to take, so that when you are visiting a brand new area you will have a much better understanding of the area than is possible from simple static street view maps," he said.

[Captain Fabio]

FFFUUUUUU!

1GB?!
That is insane!
Even if you only get half of that connection, or a 10th, it is still going to be so fast! XD
BRING IT TO EUROPE!

[mickice]

Do we really need more speed? I know it's great for downloading huge games off the PSN or Steam, but apart from that what else is there to do? Besides piracy.

[Firefox]

Do we really need more speed? I know it's great for downloading huge games off the PSN or Steam, but apart from that what else is there to do? Besides piracy.

Technology is changing and cloud computing is on the rise..not to long ago we would have been happy with dial up.

[BrokenKeyboard]

Do we really need more speed? I know it's great for downloading huge games off the PSN or Steam, but apart from that what else is there to do? Besides piracy.

Porn.

[Lethalmind]

.....People still download porn?

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That's some insane speed. There's really not that many "legit" files that are really big though.

[squirrelbo1]

came to post this.

also lethal, you are right there aren't many legit files that size, but with speeds like that, companies will start doing legit full 1080p movie downloads.

[Captain Fabio]

.....People still download porn?

LOL!

Well, website developers might add more technology too their websites if there are faster loading times =]

[iBean]

I barely even get 1mb a second here

[HaTriX]

FFFUUUUUU!

1GB?!
That is insane!
Even if you only get half of that connection, or a 10th, it is still going to be so fast! XD
BRING IT TO EUROPE!

Its a gigabit, not a gigabyte. Big difference.

And this isn't really anything special. This is offered in most other countries across the world as a standard.

The US severely lacks in the internet speed department.

[Captain Fabio]

Its a gigabit, not a gigabyte. Big difference.

And this isn't really anything special. This is offered in most other countries across the world as a standard.

The US severely lacks in the internet speed department.

O_o

*Facepalm*

I am going to go into the fail corner now! ^^;

[squirrelbo1]

Its a gigabit, not a gigabyte. Big difference.

And this isn't really anything special. This is offered in most other countries across the world as a standard.

The US severely lacks in the internet speed department.

"most countries" is an overstatement. its offered in a few other countries as standard. japan and some south east Asian countries in places like Seoul. and even then it varies by cities, its not universal across the whole country.

most of Europe, America (north and south) Africa and many Asian countries, do not have 1gb as standard.

[netherdragon]

"most countries" is an overstatement. its offered in a few other countries as standard. japan and some south east Asian countries in places like Seoul. and even then it varies by cities, its not universal across the whole country.

most of Europe, America (north and south) Africa and many Asian countries, do not have 1gb as standard.

exactly.

im in the UK, about and hour out of london and I get a max ov 2.5 meg in my area...

paying for 20 as well...damm cruddy telephone exchange in my area

[bash]

Looks like Seattle will be getting it first.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/s...-fall-in-line/

Man I wish something like this would come to canada

[keefy]

BT is rolling out FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet) in my area this year
This means the distance you are form the exchange has less impact on your download speed because it has less distance to travel through the older copper wires.

[Hologram]

wonder how long itll take before it goes nation wide. my guess is that its gonna be in places like San Francisco, and other west coast states since thats where their headquarters is at...if the vid said otherwise nvm, i didnt watch it...

[lordAlucard]

Bring it to the UK!! its now time to send BT & every other ISP that failed on its speed promises to the grave.

[Bostonmess]

Handy. PS3 could handle that too. It'd be nice streaming movies on it.

[Ifti]

Bring it to the UK!! its now time to send BT & every other ISP that failed on its speed promises to the grave.

Amen to that!

[towlie]

are you kidding? bring it to the midwest, mediacom is awful!

[SchaffinOSX]

Do we really need more speed? I know it's great for downloading huge games off the PSN or Steam, but apart from that what else is there to do? Besides piracy.

I agree. Having an extremely fast speed is great, but I feel that it just isn't necessary. A majority of downloads go pretty fast as it is, and going faster may be of more convenience, but I'm certainly not going to drop my current provider because of it. I'm perfectly happy with what I have now.

Does anyone else think Google is getting ahead of themselves? I understand that they are very successful, and very popular, but it just seems like they are trying to cover all of the bases. Lets take a look:

1.) Google search engine comes about, becoming the default search engine.

2.) Google Mail, nicknamed 'Gmail' releases.

3.) Google releases Google Chrome, a high speed web-browser.

4.) Google unveils Google Wave, a social networking program.

5.) Google Chrome OS is on its way, bring a high speed, internet browser operating system.

Then there is also 'Google Talk' somewhere in there, along with Google Maps, Google Earth, and probably various other things I'm not aware of.

I understand that expansion is potentially great for business, but I'm certainly getting a bit tired of hearing of Google releasing something new every couple of weeks / months. In my opinion they should focus on other things first, perfect them, and then move on to bigger and better things.

[Tyrien]

.....People still download porn?

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That's some insane speed. There's really not that many "legit" files that are really big though.

Streaming counts as downloading, you silly billy.

BT is rolling out FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet) in my area this year
This means the distance you are form the exchange has less impact on your download speed because it has less distance to travel through the older copper wires.

FTTN (Fiber to the Node) sounds way less lame than FTTC.

[-Kwesnoth-]

Looks like Seattle will be getting it first.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/s...-fall-in-line/

Man I wish something like this would come to canada

That figures. The farthest from me.

[Xelios]

.....People still download porn?

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That's some insane speed. There's really not that many "legit" files that are really big though.

'course we do. Sometimes the internet goes out and stuff happens and you really wish you had. It's like life insurance!

[HaTriX]

'course we do. Sometimes the internet goes out and stuff happens and you really wish you had. It's like life insurance!

Is it sad I feel the same way ?