Google Testing High-Speed Fiber Network At Stanford Res Halls

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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Fiber

[MrEricSir]

~10 years ago, Palo Alto installed a fiber network at a great expense.

I wonder if they're leveraging this existing network, or laying new fiber?

Re:Yeah what is this crap

[bv728]

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.