Google still hasn’t made a decision on which city (or communities) it would pick to build its one-gigabit-per-second broadband network, says GigaOm, but the company is moving forward and setting up an experimental network on the Stanford University Campus.
Google’s latest blog post says they’ve reached an agreement with Stanford University to build an ultra-high speed broadband network to the university’s
To be clear, this trial is completely separate from our community selection process for Google Fiber, which is still ongoing. As we’ve said, our ultimate goal is to build to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people, and we still plan to announce our selected community or communities by the end of the year.
Residential Subdivision, a group of approximately 850 faculty- and staff-owned homes on campus.
Through this trial, we plan to offer Internet speeds up to 1 gigabit per second—more than 100 times faster than what most people have access to today. We plan to start breaking ground in early 2011.
Akamai says that the top 100 fastest broadband cities around the world are mostly in Asia:
- Asia continues to dominate the list, with 62 of the top cities located in Japan and 12 in South Korea
- Umea, Sweden ranked as the fastest city in Europe (#20 out of 100)
- Only eight U.S. cities made the list, with Monterey Park, CA as the fastest U.S. city (#76 out of 100), ahead of Riverside, CA; Union, NJ; and Oakland, CA.
- The average connection speed for the U.S. as a whole in the second quarter of 2010 was 4.6 Mbps. As in the first quarter, this was exceeded by 22 states.
Of the 109 mobile providers listed, 19 had average connection speeds 2 Mbps or above (up from 14 in the first quarter), while 29 more had average measured connection speeds of 1 Mbps or more (up from 21 in the first quarter).
