Google generally IRUs fiber for their inter-datacenter connectivity almost always.. They own and operate a significant long-haul network throughout the US that interconnects their datacenters..
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Mark J. Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > Back in the late 90s (I think it was, maybe early 2000s), some company was > laying new fiber from Nashville down the US231 corridor to Huntsville. You > couldn't miss the mess they made in the hills south of Shelbyville. I forget > who it was at the time (Bluestar maybe?), but I heard it never went > anywhere. Then not long after it had been more or less completed, I heard it > from a reliable source that Google had bought it all up, and that they were > quietly doing so all around the country with grand plans at some point to > spring it into action. I guess this is part of that plan now over a decade > later, and it makes sense that Nashville would be a candidate based on what > I heard back then. What I know about it is 2nd or 3rd hand no doubt, but it > does fit the mold. This could be a real game changer for the likes of > Comcast and might be part of what spurned the Comcast/TW proposed merger. > Sounds sweet to me! > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Csaba Toth > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 3:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [nlug] Google Fiber? > > > > I thought that Fresno, CA (where I live now) is on the top 10 of that list. > Now looking at the map it's a huge void there instead of a pin... > Ok, after some search there was a big churn in the news about this: > > http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?id=7351710 > http://www.fresno.gov/News/PressReleases/2011/GoogleFiber.htm > > etc. > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Amber Adams > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Fast residential service is actually the least important thing about Google > Fiber coming to Nashville. The business potential this will create, > particularly within health care (which is Nashville's biggest industry), > could easily impact every person who works in technology around this city. > Faster Netflix streaming is nice but we should also be thinking about it > from the standpoint of how our employers might want to exploit the > opportunity, or even how we as technologists might exploit it from an > entrepreneurial standpoint. > > Amber Adams > > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Drew <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm (sort of) with Jack. I'm actually close enough to Clarksville to get > Charter. But I'm very lucky in that. People one road away from me don't have > cable, and can't get it. I wish I thought Google Fiber in Nashville would do > me any good. It won't, but I'm pulling for you guys anyhow. > > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tin can and wet string, grumble, barbed wire networking, grumble, no > cable/DSL/fiber, grumble whine > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. 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