[olug] Google Fiber home Internet sevice RFI

[Dan Clough]

I'd love to see OLUG push for this in Omaha.  Omaha's job market is a bit down on its luck.  I think this would be a great thing for local small and medium businesses, if Google would allow them access to the service.  Maybe even a great thing for kicking off a community colo project?  ;)

Dan

On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:49 PM, Dan Linder wrote:

> I'd push for everyone to look at the RFI (Request For Information)
> page Google has put up:
> 
> http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi
> 
> From their page:
>     We plan to test ultra-high speed broadband networks in one or more
>     trial locations across the country. Our networks will deliver Internet
>     speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have
>     access to today, over 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections.
>     We'll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and
> potentially
>     up to 500,000 people.
> 
> If this interests you, I'd like to ask everyone to register your
> support for this.  I think having a true competitor to the TeleCom and
> Cable companies would be a good thing.  Maybe we'd get our Internet
> access up to what other parts of the world already have.
> 
> Some of their goals intrigue me, especially this one:
>     We'll operate an "open access" network, giving users the choice of multiple
>     service providers. And consistent with our past advocacy, we'll manage our
>     network in an open, non-discriminatory, and transparent way.
> 
> To me that implies that you won't get shut down for sharing your WiFi
> with friends and neighbors, or hosting a web/mail server in your home.
> Imagine if the radio companies of the 20's had clamped down on
> homebrew experimentation?  Imagine what a smart high-school kid with a
> bit of electrical and programming prowess could do if he wanted to
> setup a wireless network with his friend a few blocks away.  Today his
> parents would be afraid he'd get them black-listed from their ISP.
> With a truly open access network, not only could he experiment like
> this, but he might just invent something useful.
> 
> And with Gigabit speeds, we'd finally start to realize true InternetTV
> and services such as NetFlix could offer very high-quality on-demand
> shows.  It would also open up the TeleCo promise (made 50+ years ago)
> of a true VideoPhone technology.  No more pixelated and jerky video
> when the neighbors kid starts viewing a video from YouTube.
> 
> A side-effect I'm hoping to see out of this is that Google will apply
> the same level of thought into managing their network and publish some
> true, real-world numbers and how they cope with consumers using these
> speeds.  If they could work out a non-Carnivore way of traffic shaping
> without the knee-jerk "rate-limit BitTorrent and block e-mail", then
> the rest of the TeleCo providers would loose their rate-limiting
> defense.
> 
> Just my two cents.  Anyone else?
> 
> DanL
> 
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