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Re: Google Fiber
A Vermont company - VTel - is doing the same build to almost 20k residents. VTel is running strands of fiber to all 20k homes and giving each 1Gbps full duplex. This takes a ton of money which is why Google is perfect. Fiber is 25-50k per mile to run which is much more expensive then the switches/routers needed to aggregate the fibers. To make this work, the density has to be great enough per mile run to recoup over time - usually 10-20 years.
Google as an ISP - that's huge when combined with all their other assets. They are going to rule the cloud!!
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