Google is ready to start laying fibre-optic lines in two US cities for its Google Fiber project to catalyse a shift toward higher-speed internet access.
The company has finished surveying and measuring, and it now is ready to lay fibre, Kevin Lo, general manager of Google Access, said on Monday. At the beginnning, it will only cover the backbone of the broadband network, not the connections to actual homes and businesses.
"As we build out Google Fiber, we'll be taking thousands of miles of cables and stretching them across Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri," he said. "We'll be taking these cables and weaving them into a fibre backbone--a completely new high speed infrastructure that will ultimately be carrying Kansas Citians' data at speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have today."
Google announced the project two years ago, and in March last year said Kansas City, Kansas, would be the first community to get the 1Gbps internet access. It's possible Google could bring Google Fiber to some parts of Europe, MarketWatch reported last year.
For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Google set to give a little backbone to Kansas City high-speed Net on CNET News.
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