Google Fiber V2.0

[patrickjp93]

Just now, dalekphalm said:

So in terms of pure financial power - let's keep it simple and look at revenue:

Google: $74.54Bn USD

Comcast: $74.51Bn USD

Time Warner Cable: $23.69Bn USD

 

So Google is the largest of the three companies, when strictly looking at Revenue. However, TWC and CC combined are ~$25Bn USD larger.

But Google has a million and a half other projects it has to fund other than being a telecom company. Comcast and TWC do not have such a disadvantage.

[patrickjp93]

Just now, RuLeZ said:

10Tb/s? Thats a small datacenter, you probably mean 10Gb/s, which is still a lot. 10Tb/s would mean pure 500mbit for 20.000 students, but maybe they need it to exchange data between supercomputers, than it seems reasonable

It also includes the same rate for about 1200 professors, and it does have to provide for when we use the Ohio State Supercomputing Center.

[dalekphalm]

Just now, patrickjp93 said:

But Google has a million and a half other projects it has to fund other than being a telecom company. Comcast and TWC do not have such a disadvantage.

Well to some degree, yes. Comcast does own a shitload of subsidiaries though. They probably aren't nearly as diversified as Google (especially with smaller scale R&D projects all over the place).

[Centurius]

1 hour ago, theninja35 said:

Honestly, though, what are you going to use 5Gbps download for?

 

Are you really that horny?

Everything VR needs more resources, it isn't strange the really fun stuff does so too

[KuJoe]

And this is how Google will ruin the internet.

[Atmos]

1 hour ago, Trik'Stari said:

Google, please stop being a dick tease with the fiber. Just go big with it an cover the entire US. That way Comcast, Verizon, and TWC can all go out of business or actually stop being complete fucking assholes.

Verizon is already out of business down here in the mighty socal wastelands.

Frontier bought up all their fios infrastructure and started charging us double our rates automatically without us even signing over or agreeing to a damn thing

 

I smell lawsuits inbound on them any day now.

[KuJoe]

On 25/07/2016 at 8:25 PM, RuLeZ said:

10Tb/s? Thats a small datacenter, you probably mean 10Gb/s, which is still a lot. 10Tb/s would mean pure 500mbit for 20.000 students, but maybe they need it to exchange data between supercomputers, than it seems reasonable

I only know of a handful of data centers in the US that have 1Tbps worth of capacity. 100Gbps is common, 200Gbps is much less common, 500Gbps is pretty rare for a public data center.

 

I think people need to be more responsible with their network security before being given a 1Gbps uplink. Maybe Google should have a common sense test before handling out 5Gbps uplinks. I deal with enough DDOS attacks from botnets full of morons with their unsecured networks and 10Mbps uplinks, if Google just starts handing out 1Gbps connections to whoever is willing to pay for it the internet is going to be a depressing place.

[Sparviero]

Didn't google fiber kind of get ripped recently for aiming at high end apartments and developments. With the caveat these places are building their own fiber and Google just has to reach one spot instead of build up a large network?

 

still would love for them to come to my area. 

[patrickjp93]

10 minutes ago, Sparviero said:

Didn't google fiber kind of get ripped recently for aiming at high end apartments and developments. With the caveat these places are building their own fiber and Google just has to reach one spot instead of build up a large network?

 

still would love for them to come to my area. 

That's the financially wise decision. Google can't spread out into suburbia if it doesn't have a backbone built up in the big cities.

[Sparviero]

If the goal is to be disruptive and create innovation catering to the people who are going to be getting such service without Google doesn't really create this desired environment. 

[ADM-Ntek]

2 hours ago, suicidalfranco said:

and here i  am with peasant (literally peasant, i live in the countryside) 250kBps down and 40kBps up

i feel you man same for me. 

[DocSwag]

Internet that's faster than USB 3.0? Holy crap....

 

Tbh though I wouldn't be very interested in anything above gigabit for my personal PC... I don't see it being worthwhile to pay extra money just to make it so my movies download in 1 sec instead of 5!

[Arty]

1 hour ago, dalekphalm said:

So in terms of pure financial power - let's keep it simple and look at revenue:

Google: $74.54Bn USD

Comcast: $74.51Bn USD

Time Warner Cable: $23.69Bn USD

 

So Google is the largest of the three companies, when strictly looking at Revenue. However, TWC and CC combined are ~$25Bn USD larger.

also keep in mind google actually spends it's money, while the other 2 hoard it. 

[2FA]

1 hour ago, patrickjp93 said:

Most businesses beyond any minor size buy Tb/s connection speeds. Hell even my university had a 10Tb/s connection with each student limited to 100mb/s (multiplied by 20,000 students mind you).

I meant small to medium sized businesses. My university just upgraded to 1Gbps this previous year from 300Mbps. Mind you we have less 2000 students but the hilarious part is that we are supposed to be a tech school. I'm not complaining though as my throughput never dropped below 50Mbps.

[patrickjp93]

15 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

I meant small to medium sized businesses. My university just upgraded to 1Gbps this previous year from 300Mbps. Mind you we have less 2000 students but the hilarious part is that we are supposed to be a tech school. I'm not complaining though as my throughput never dropped below 50Mbps.

If you are the kind of student who needs it, then it's justified. I had special access to the OSSCC since I was a Master's student researching Augmented reality, but for everything else, I could have lasted on the base 10Mbps speeds the university gave us.