Google is making an effort which is their biggest potential game changer since Gmail. Fiber as a Service (FaaS) will slowly make a change to the ISP marketplace since Google can afford to compete on it’s own terms.
Tag: fiber
Research and Education network organizations are beginning to successfully integrated new communities into their membership from the beginning, but funding from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s BTOP (Broadband Technology Opportunities Program) has created opportunities to build non-traditional communities from public sectors such as public safety, state government and healthcare.
Today’s panel session included representatives from network organizations and their new community partner discussing their experience and providing their perspective on the opportunities, challenges and lessons learned when building new communities.
David Reese CTO from CENIC (Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California) stated they have provided iPads to everyone with all mapping of fiber routes is now digital (Google Earth) and paper maps are simply being ignored.
Google’s much talked about community fiber project has been initially addressed at their Official blog. Yet much to my surprise (Is it just me — think about it) they posted all the cities who applied in a static graphic — but not an interactive Google Map!
Please tell me that a data driven company like Google does not have an interactive map regarding all cities that applied for their fiber project! James Kelly, Google Project Manager — are you listening?
Link to Google’s Official Blog post about the community fiber project:
Google is planning to launch an experimental network that will make internet access better and faster for consumers.
Link to website
Tags: experimental network, Google, Network, internet access, Research, Internet2, Broadbandt, gigabit, high speed, trends,