Building a Gigabit Fiber Network Is Real Hard, Even for Google [Google] (Gizmodo)
The WSJ delves into the trials and tribulations of trying to build a gigabit fiber network out to even the 50,000 homes at the low ends of Google’s goals for their trial network . It could cost up to $1 billion, and Google’s already mentioning to people it’s asking for help, like Case Western Reserve University’s Lev Gonick, whose building gigabit fiber to 104 homes, that “we have a lot to learn …
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