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Groups Launch $200M Gigabit-per-second Broadband Project
alphadogg writes "An Ohio startup company has raised $200 million to fund gigabit-per-second broadband projects in six university communities across the U.S., the company announced Wednesday. Gigabit Squared will work with the University Community Next Generation Innovation Project (Gig.U), a coalition of 30 universities focused on improved broadband, to select six communities in which to build the ultra-fast broadband networks, they said. The two organizations will select winning communities between November and the first quarter of 2013, Mark Ansboury, president of Gigabit Squared, said. The new project comes at an important time, when many commercial broadband providers have stopped deploying next-generation networks, said Blair Levin, executive director of Gig.U and lead author of the FCC's 2010 national broadband plan."
Groups Launch $200M Gigabit-per-second Broadband Project
200M Gigabits per second for a dollar - That's 200 petabits a second. I'll have that
ray tracing in the clouds...
Download a full length movie in Twelve seconds. Hollywood will have a hissy fit for sure. Thank God for the huge hard drives now for sale.
Im sure the students appreciate the campus dormitories, what will they use them for? pron & parties?
Surelly nothing else and those are a waste of money.
I should trademark "squaredbook" and "booksquared".
Infuriate left and right
Those grapes were probably sour anyway.
What about Internet2 (internet2.edu)?
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
Except with torrents. Enter throttling from Web servers to make sure these users don't squeeze out the slow people like me at only 30Mbs. I still have trouble finding places online that even allow my connection to run at its full potential.
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3d holograms when we have a genius that comes up with the real time compression algorithms.
yes, all holograms are 3d. So stop your surly post right there...
What are they going to use it for, pron & torrents?
Sometimes it's very convenient to have a fast connection for research purposes. I'm a physics student, and if I need to analyse some data at home, I have the choice between downloading a data file (anywhere from 100 kB to 40 GB) and processing it locally or using some kind of remote desktop, e.g. networked X11. Having a fast connection would mean that I don't have to do something else while waiting for it to download / display.
That said, for my first year I did live in university accommodation, and the connection was very fast. The problem was that they had some lame traffic shaping / blocking system that for example blocked me from accessing my home directory (AFS). So this could be a great help to students, but they should keep blocking to a minimum to avoid interfering with research.
It makes a huge difference to go beyond 100 Mbit, but many systems can't handle a full gigabit. Also, many servers can serve exactly one client at 1 Gbit. I wish 10 Gig became more common and cheap, so most servers could use it. With a single SSD you could serve a few clients at gigabit speeds.
Then my internet will be shut off for the rest of the month. Scumbag GB/s networks.
Gigabit FTTH already in parts of Minneapolis
They are laying fiber right now.
http://www.city-data.com/forum/minneapolis-st-paul/1550846-us-internet-fiber-optic-service-minneapolis.html
Private telecomm company GWI has already announced plans with the University of Maine (also part of Gig.U) to do this in the nearby Orono and Old Town communities.
I'm curious to see the outcome a few years down the road, how it really affects anything.
how our IT/Programmer brethren of a darker skin tone feel when they see this kind of crap
I hate to admit this. But I've worked in programmer for years and can honestly say I've never met a black programmer. Asian, definitely. Hispanic, a few, yes.
1 gigabit ethernet has been cheap for nearly a decade. 10 gigabit ethernet is still expensive. I remember checking the price 10 gigabit ethernet back in 2008, and the price was supposed to come down a lot in the next 5 years.... except it has not fallen. I still think there should be a cheaper 2.5 gigabit ethernet.
Fiber to Gated Communities? I suspect only the already well-to-do enclaves near 'leet unis will be the only beneficiaries for some time, such as Palo Alto, Research Triangle, Ann Arbor... Grambling State? NDSU? Don't hold your breath.
Don't feed the troll. And, for the record, I have met and worked with many talented African American programmers.
The color of one's skin is not a measure of the quality of the checked-n code.
Before you get digital holograms you're going to need a hell of a lot better screen resolution (at least as good as film) to display them. And the screen will need an LCD display backlit by lasers.
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According to Sonic.net, the ISP that performed the fiber installation for Google in part of San Francisco and now is rolling it out in the North Bay, adding wires underground is costly/difficult enough that they'll only include neighborhoods/homes with existing above-ground wires for the foreseeable future. I wonder whether the same will apply to the Google Gig/sec project as well, and whether they'd then opt to exclude entire universities based on surrounding community wiring, or upgrade connections for students in some neighborhoods/buildings but not others (which could lead to unpleasant disparities if older housing costs a great deal more, as it does here).
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