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NEW YORK - GOOGLE announced plans on Wednesday to build experimental ultra high-speed broadband networks that would deliver Internet speeds 100 times faster than those of today to up to half a million Americans.
The Web search and advertising giant said the envisioned one gigabit per second speeds would allow to stream 3-D medical imaging over the Web or download a high-definition, full-length movie in less than five minutes.
Google's project complements US President Barack Obama's pledge to bring broadband to every US home as part of the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan. Google product managers Minnie Ingersoll and James Kelly said the Mountain View, California-based company was planning to 'build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations' in the United States.
'We'll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with one gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections,' they said in a blog post.
Google said it planned to offer service to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people. 'Our goal is to experiment with new ways to help make broadband Internet access better, faster and more widely available,' Richard Whitt, Google's Washington-based telecom and media counsel, said in a blog post.
'We think that ultra high-speed bandwidth will lead to many new innovations - including streaming high-definition video content, remote data storage, distance learning, real-time multimedia collaboration and others that we simply can't imagine yet.' -- AFP
The Web search and advertising giant said the envisioned one gigabit per second speeds would allow to stream 3-D medical imaging over the Web or download a high-definition, full-length movie in less than five minutes.
Google's project complements US President Barack Obama's pledge to bring broadband to every US home as part of the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan. Google product managers Minnie Ingersoll and James Kelly said the Mountain View, California-based company was planning to 'build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations' in the United States.
'We'll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with one gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections,' they said in a blog post.
Google said it planned to offer service to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people. 'Our goal is to experiment with new ways to help make broadband Internet access better, faster and more widely available,' Richard Whitt, Google's Washington-based telecom and media counsel, said in a blog post.
'We think that ultra high-speed bandwidth will lead to many new innovations - including streaming high-definition video content, remote data storage, distance learning, real-time multimedia collaboration and others that we simply can't imagine yet.' -- AFP
