Am 13. Mai, 2014 schwätzte Michael Butash so:
moin moin,
Tempe is sitting on a bunch of fiber. Maybe google is negotiating for
access to that.
I believe the fiber is mostly just in the downtown area. Tempe was putting
in fiber as part of construction contracts years ago. I don't know if
they've continued that practice.
ciao,
der.hans
I'm curious to see the logistics of a company trying to move in and retrofit
a city for something like fiber. There's a reason there's really 2 players,
cox and $mini-bell, they built before things were covered in concrete. I've
worked for cox and seen that cities can take months to return permits
(mesa/tempe was the worst) for any construction, which will be required amass
to deliver anything like that.
New areas will always be prioritized, but for most of phoenix that is
land-locked and built already, it doesn't mean much for expediency to get
their google fiber in-town to incumbent areas with tons of dead-weight
bureaucrats to sit on the permit orders waiting for a pension to kick in.
More competition is better, but I don't think cox is immediately worried with
shielded coax delivering gigabit speeds soon (plus they are looking to
replace coax with fiber too), and centurylink is in the same boat as google
needing to replace dated 2-wire infrastructure with fiber as DSL is hitting
its limits for year.
If they're smart, they'll work off of each other and just get us composite
dwdm to our houses at some point. PON networks seem a bit janky still after
having built real transport networks.
-mb
On 05/13/2014 10:48 AM, Stephen Partington wrote:
A vpn will make the usage anonymous, but not give you more or less.
And Google fiber is why my move is specifically staying in Tempe :-)
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