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Google Testing High-Speed Fiber Network At Stanford Res Halls

Posted by timothy on from the should-be-cosponsored-by-seagate dept.

GovTechGuy writes with this news from "Google has reached an agreement to build its first ultra-high speed broadband network near Stanford University, the search giant announced on Thursday. The agreement with Stanford means the university's residential subdivision will be the first place to test Internet speeds up to one gigabit per second, more than 100 times faster than the typical broadband connection in the US. The plan is to break ground early next year." That might just be worth $50,576 per year to have.

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  1. This is not for students by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 4, Informative

    This network is for houses on Stanford's campus where faculty and staff live. The students will have to be content with only 100 Mbps in the dorms.

  2. Re:Yeah what is this crap by bv728 · · Score: 5, Informative

    In fact, if you RTFA, you'll notice the phrases such as 'Test' and 'learn from the small deployment how to scale the Google Fiber program effectively for larger communities.'. This is intended as a close to home, easy deployment.

  3. Re:$50k? Uh, it's already available elsewhere by mmaniaci · · Score: 3, Informative

    The $50k is housing and tuition costs for Stanford students, not the price of the service. I'd link you to the source, but, yeah, you won't click it.

  4. Re:How convenient... by Caspin · · Score: 4, Informative

    umm... RTFA?

    There are only 850 homes that are being serviced at Stanford, mostly faculty (no dorms). Google has plans to scale they're broadband experiment up to 50,000-500,000 homes before their done.

    Stanford was selected to be the first because it was small and close to Google's campus. It is essentially the trial run before the really big deployments.

    The rest of the communities will be selected before the end of the year.