The Internet mammoth is up at it again. Google is going to use Stanford’s campus to trial their fiber optic Internet service before going for the mass public. This is a follow up to the earlier news that Google is planning to rollout 1Gbps fiber connection to between 50,000 and 500,000 homes in a given community. Looks like they’ve finalized their hardware and is ready to give it a try. Lucky Stanford students.
The university’s Residential Subdivision — a group of approximately 850 faculty- and staff-owned homes on campus — will be the testing grounds for the aforesaid internet service, and the current plan is to break ground on the initiative in early 2011. El Goog chose Stanford for a couple of reasons: first, it’s bright enough to realize how awesome of a PR move this is, and second, this chunk of campus is spitting distance from Mountain View. Would be a breeze to handle. I’m curious how this will fare for Google as an ISP (Internet Service Provider). Thus far worldwide ISP companies have their fair share of customer service complains.
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