Meant to post this a just before I left Savannah, but didn’t.
Hopefully, someone has offered up our dark fiber as the backbone for this ambitious Google experiment.
Google Fiber for Communities
Google is planning to launch an experiment that we hope will make Internet access better and faster for everyone. We plan to test ultra-high speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the country. Our networks will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today, over 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We’ll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.
From now until March 26th, we’re asking interested municipalities to provide us with information about their communities through a Request for information (RFI), which we’ll use to determine where to build our network.
High speed fiber could be a boon to launching small business in Dayton. Considering how many serious blows this community has suffered of late, this could be a serious piece of good news. This would be an excellent project for the Dayton Development Coalition to pitch.
wow no credit for sending you the link and letting you know about it :-( thanks
@Clayton maybe because I didn’t hear that from you- unless you publish http://www.macnn.com You asked me who owns the phone lines- but, I don’t have anything else.
The Fiber we own is used to run the traffic signals- and has been mentioned before in the upDayton strategy sessions and in the Downtown Dayton Plan as part of the “plan”
whoa I meant i sent you a email about it. asking you to talk to Gary about it. its not that big of a deal just a lil joke
Moving on, although it would be great if Google selected Dayton as a bandwidth test tube I seriously doubt our existing dark fiber would support the minimim 1,000 terabyte capacity to provide 1 gig connectivity to 5,000 residents, setting aside the fiber capacity from our closest MAE connection point, Chicago. Briefly, Google would minimize their investment and maximize test results by choosing a city within a stone’s throw of Dallas.
would love to see Dayton on this list – this would really push us past the manufacturing industry and into technology.
There’s a Facebook group, I bet I can find a 100,000 Daytonians who want Google Fiber Optic to Dayton, but so far the group’s creator has lost his bet because he’s found only 108 people. I’m guessing whoever applies to Google to get gigabit fiber for Dayton shouldn’t point this out.
we have a fiber network supplier in Dayton.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/fiber-network-company-expands-ohio-presence-557100.html
Read how other communities are activating to get Google’s attention: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2010/tc2010032_027253.htm?campaign_id=mag_Mar4&link_position=link21
Unfortunately, we’re lucky if our leaders even have a non-AOL e-mail account.
Hey, David E, did you notice that the mayor of Topeka, err, Google, KS, also does not know the correct possessive form of it? See his Google proclamation, which is in need of a bit of proofreading.