Google Fiber Network To Begin First Trial
Google’s ultra high speed fiber network, which can offer speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second, is about to undergo its first trial.
Google will be deploying the trial at Stanford University to a group of about 850 faculty and staff.
Google has stated that this isn’t part of its call for small-to-mid-sized communities to submit proposals to get “Google Fiber” in their towns. That competition sparked a battle between hundred of towns ranging from Topeka, Kansas, to Huntsville, Alabama. Google will announce the selected community for the Google Fiber network by the end of the year.
Google has emphasized the fact that it doesn’t plan to get into the ISP business, as many speculated it would when it first announced the initiative. Rather, it falls into Google’s broader goal of making the Internet faster. However, Google originally shot down the idea of transforming Gmail into Google Apps for business and look how that turned out.
