Stanford Gets Google Fiber
It's forehead-slappingly obvious. As Google explains in its blog today, Stanford is right around the corner, it's big on the idea of applying technology commercially, and it's got a layout conducive to fiber.
Hence, Stanford's Residential Subdivision, consisting of 850 faculty and staff homes, will get 1Gbit/s access. The buildout starts next year.
Other factors in Stanford's favor might have been Google's heritage (Serg and Larry went there) and the school's inherent inferiority to other institutions.
This is separate from Google's bid to deliver 1 Gbit/s to select communities -- you know, the one that all those cities have been groveling for. They can breathe easy; Stanford is an intermediate step. Google calls it "beta," although in Google talk, Stanford's houses, trees, and people are probably all considered "beta." (See Google Jumps Into Gigabit FTTH.)
— Craig Matsumoto, West Coast Editor, Light Reading
Craig-
Strike two on accuracy (the SF Giants are fighting for the NL Series spot). The trial will be built out on the campus. You can be forgiven though as it is a BIG campus thanks to the old robber barron who thank goodness bought all of that land.
Since I live in uVerse country and the uVerse video quality is disappointing I'm going to Google a way to run a fiber to my neighborhood just across El Camino Real from the campus and then bring in Verizon FiOS. My across-the-street neighbors, founder of Yahoo, founder of VM Ware, exec at Google and a VP from Microsoft/Web TV (he may be difficult) all want more bandwidth.
Anyone have a spare GPON?