They could collaborate on cybersecurity and critical infrastructure standards, new power lines, fiber to the home, roads, bridges, airports, satellite systems, toll roads and more.
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Unlike fiber to the home, this solution does not require trenching of streets and lawns, so deployment is not only many times less expensive but also much faster.
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And since many of the home builders in those growing regions do not know how to install fiber to the home correctly, Cioffi does not see DSL going away there even in new construction or green field situations.
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.
The network, called Gigabit Seattle ( www.gigabitseattle.com) includes three pieces: Fiber directly to the home and business in twelve demonstration neighborhoods, dedicated gigabit broadband wireless connections to multifamily housing and offices across Seattle, and next generation mobile wireless internet.
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Its exhibit displayed all the services and content available thanks to its ridiculously fast Fios fiber-to-the-home broadband service.
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.
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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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.
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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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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Shared fiber : The government constructs (or authorizes a private company to construct) a network of fiber optic cables that run from each home in the municipality to a central peering point.
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.
At home its military unit has used fiber optics in some sales to the U.S. government.
My home state of Vermont made me proud this week by bringing gigabit fiber connectivity to the lucky residents of the greatest state in the Union.
Every home already on the iProvo network will eventually be able to connect to Google Fiber, it added.
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New plastic fiber will be flexible and durable enough to wrap around desks and plug into PCs--ideal for the home.
And since fiber-optic cables are typically run right along with utility pipes--neither phone nor gas companies want to have their lines cut--it's easy to connect a fiber backbone to the gas pipes at the neighborhood level, and beam a signal the final few feet to each home.
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