[Cialug] Google Fiber

Jeffrey Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Thu Mar 4 15:17:19 CST 2010


On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Eric Junker <eric at eric.nu> wrote:
> Some people are trying to get Google to select Des Moines as a city to
> test their fiber based high speed network. Doesn't Iowa have a bunch of
> dark fiber thanks to the ICN?
>
> http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi
>
> http://dsmfiber.org/

The ICN doesn't own that much fiber directly, or at least not as much
as you'd think.  A lot of the bandwidth that they use is leased
capacity from McLeod/PAETEC or other providers.

-- 
Jeff Ollie


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