Tag: FIBER

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. In 1855, ...

Hoping to be selected as test sites for Google's upcoming high-speed fiber network, many cities have launched weird viral campaigns. According to an Associated Press report, Google set the nomination deadline for March 26th, and will announce the winners by the end of the year. Sascha Meinrath, director of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative, told the AP that Google wants ...

We don't have to tell you about all the ways that Google has its hands in your life, both online and off. And, although yesterday's Google Buzz announcement is dominating the news cycle, the search giant made an announcement today that we think is far more important: Google is entering the ISP business. Apparently, the company doesn't intend to truly challenge the major players like Verizon or ...

How exactly this slipped through without getting picked up by the media we're not exactly sure, but it appears that southern San Jose, California and the surrounding area recently fell victim to a cyber-attack that crippled some of the city's infrastructure. Just after midnight on April 9th, someone (or a small group of someones) climbed down four manholes and cut fiber-optic lines serving the ...

So you think your cable modem is fast? Maybe you think that those Japanese are lucky with their average broadband speed of 61 megabits per second. Well, one woman has put all those to shame. Sigbritt Löthberg, a resident of Karlstad, Sweden has been set up with the worlds fastest broadband connection -- 40 Gigabits per second. Yes that's right Gigabits. Thats roughly 800 times faster than the ...