[122273] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google to offer fiber to end users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ronald Cotoni)
Wed Feb 10 17:23:26 2010
In-Reply-To: <F6581204-FBBE-47D7-9E0C-406CE28D15DA@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:18:41 -0500
From: Ronald Cotoni <setient@gmail.com>
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrot=
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> On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Matt Simmons wrote:
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>> I'm really interested in their distribution ideas, as well as the
>> bottleneck from the Google network to the rest of the internet.
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>> Ah, who am I kidding, it's not like anyone cares about the rest of the
>> internet, right?
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> The WSJ says: =A0"In an interview, Google product manager Minnie Ingersol=
l said consumers
> will be able to buy service directly from Google or from other
> providers, whom Google will allow to resell the service. She said
> Google will manage the deployment of the network but probably partner
> with contractors to help build it."
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> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.e=
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I honestly wonder if they will use ipv4 or ipv6 for their rollout...
Could be interesting to watch!
