Google to offer 1Gbps residential ISP service
February 10, 2010
It plans to build a fibre-optic network offering speeds of up to 1Gbps (gigabit per second) to up to 500,000 homes. This is in comparison to Comcast on or about 5Mpbs (if your lucky on a good day) …
1 Gbps is enough bandwidth to rid yourself of any need for installed software or a comprehensive OS. With bandwidth like that open to you, you wouldn’t even have to install a video game… you could run it live full screen though your browser with virtually no lag.
You would even be able to run photoshop and large graphic and video work without having to install the video editing software on your computer. 1 Gb video file would take 1-2 seconds to load up … roughly the same speed to the average individual as your hard drive.
Google’s reason for this is quite simple.. they are simply stating “you don’t need Microsoft Word, Google docs is just as fast (if not faster)”
If bandwidth like that was open to the general public, the need for anything Microsoft would be virtually nill.
They are really pushing for improvement, because in their eyes improvement is completely removing Microsoft from the picture.
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There are 350 million people in America – are we supposed to be impressed? Once again, Google plans to crash markets for the sake of crashing them. Where's GoogleTV or GoogleRadio or even GoogleWave? Is this bandwidth capability unique? Of course not. It just won't get out of the labs of the otherwise responsible businesses that could do it, because the investors in those companies require a profit model before rolling cool shit out of the lab. Sorry, but aren't you tired of this perpetual beta crap from Google. I sure am.
Good one Mr. Gates.
Google want to be an Seach engine, ISP, Telephone Carrier, a Power Utilty company and much more, they;re streaching themselfs too thin, just the way our army is.. They're going torward failure.