Its exhibit displayed all the services and content available thanks to its ridiculously fast Fios fiber-to-the-home broadband service.
Comcast plans to offer ten times that speed, and Google has promised trials of blazing-fast one gigabyte per second fiber-to-the-home connections.
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Nearly 20% of Americans now have access to broadband from fiber-to-the-home, which today can reach speeds of up to 300 Mbps and the promise, soon, of 1 Gigabit speeds.
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This seems to be further evidence that Google does not just view Kansas City as a sandbox to experiment on the rollout of its 1 gigabit, fiber-to-the-home product, but a potential new area of business.
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While the company is still claiming the highest video quality (something that has been hotly debated and litigated about), they aren't feeling a lot of heat from the Fiber-to-the-Home crowd, and don't see much of an impact on their business from competition in that area.
Either way, a regional demonstration would mirror the Google approach in Kansas City to demonstrate the viability of high-speed fiber networks to the home.
If a city were to try to go it alone, it would have to make huge investments in back-end systems to provide all of these services, to run the fiber directly to the homes, and in-home devices.
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The only other serious alternative, fiber-optic links to the home, won't be economically viable for years.
Not only could it be used for fiber all the way to the home, it could also be used to provide high-speed Internet to a street where it could then be delivered into the home over a short unlicensed wireless connection, or via existing cable.
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Lucent's 30, 000 techies work on such advances as plastic fiber flexible enough to wire your home, a new over-the-air laser system for local optical transmission and routers with mind-boggling capacity.
New plastic fiber will be flexible and durable enough to wrap around desks and plug into PCs--ideal for the home.
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