Sure. It is made out to be a bigger deal than it really is. |
I agree with RC. It will probably just link Google's Datacentres with each other so that have quicker comms between each of them. |
Well, if internet neutrality is applied in US, Google must find a way to reduce cost of data exchanges. And this could be a way to counter this law... by making money sharing Tb! |
Isn't it a normal thing?
A small company with presence in different company goes for small IPLC circuits of 10-20mb
Google need much more bandwidth so inter-datacenter communication, so its going for direct fiber.
Sounds very obvious to me & I thought it already exists.
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That is so crazy to think of cables under the water for thousands of miles!!11one |
Whatever happened to the shipping-container data-center idea? (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2005/pulpit_20051117_000873.html) Anyway, would this just be from California to Asia? Or would there be another cable to Australia? Or maybe my favorite country, Kiribati? Currently Kiribati's Internet is quite limited (see: http://www.coconutwireless.ki/)
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While they are at it, can they bring Fiber to my doorstep?? |
I'm reminded of the Epiphyte corporation in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.
I guess Google doesn't want to own the internet – it wants to BE the internet. |
