and six other metro areas further down the line. Fiber has already put pressure on other broadband carriers: in the wake of Google's Austin announcement, AT&T quickly began installing its ownhigh-speed fiber network, which it launched in late 2013. A move into wireless would take aim at the...
compounded by incumbent telcos who have sued Google Fiber in various states to avoid being forced to share utility poles or route access. Running a cable through yards and under sidewalks and driveways isn't exactly cheap when you have to tear the landscape apart, then p...
Huntsville, Ala., also laid out the welcome mat to Google Fiber service, which will be provided over a network being built by city-owned Huntsville Utilities and leased to Google. City officials saw the network as “a low-risk investment, as compared to administering the gigabit Internet ...
Physical layer: This layer is responsible for transmitting raw data bits over a communication channel, such as a wire or fiber optic cable. Data link layer: This layer is responsible for establishing and maintaining a reliable link between two devices, and for detecting and correcting errors in ...
Huntsville, Ala., also laid out the welcome mat to Google Fiber service, which will be provided over a network being built by city-owned Huntsville Utilities and leased to Google. City officials saw the network as “a low-risk investment, as compared to administering the gigabit Internet ...
Any real business is being down in the back. There’s a USB-C port for power (and whatever weird dongle/adapter situation you might want to try out, should you need external storage or anything), the gigabit Ethernet port, HDMI port (Google says to use a HDMI 2.1 cable, which you’...
The battle lines are being drawn as the FCC debates its open internet rules ByBen Popper SourceGoogle Fiber Blog May 23, 2014, 12:27 AM GMT+8 Share this story Google fired a shot across the bow of big ISPs like Comcast and Verizon yesterday, stating in ablog post from its Fiber divisi...
Google partners with KDDI, ARTERIA, Citadel Pacific, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) for the North Pacific Connect initiative, to create new fiber-optic subsea cable routes between the continental U.S. and Japan in support of Google’sJapan Digitiza...
However, other ISPs are attempting to put a dent into Google Fiber by releasing their own gigabit network in competing cities, withAT&T announcing gigabit availability in Austin, Texasjust days after Google unveiled its plans. Seattle is another city planning to implement gigabit Internet, thanks to...
The FCC released an initial proposal in 2012 for a Citizens Broadband Radio Service that would rely on a spectrum-sharing scheme that would use up to 150MHz of spectrum in the band. Instead of being sliced into 'static' blocks and sold to the highest bidder, the spectrum would be shared ...