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Google Fiber Acceleration to 10 Gbit / s
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Google provides high-speed Internet access Google Fiber, connecting users in several US cities at a speed of 1 Gbit / s. In every home stretch fiber, with connection and subscription fee costs a little money, given unlimited bandwidth. A record access and speed, which does not provide any other service provider in the United States.
But this is not the limit. Now, Google is working to increase the speed of access up to 10 Gbit / s !
About the future increase in the rate of reported Google CFO Patrick Pichette (Patrick Pichette) conference Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet.
Patrick Pichette called it "the next generation of the Internet" and explained that the speed increase is part of a long-term strategy for Google, which "obsessed increase internet speed».
Most speed leads to improved performance of Web applications, which puts Google. And content information from the Internet must be transferred to the computer at approximately the same rate at which it can read data from the local HDD.
According to the tariff plans Google Fiber, now at gigabit fiber is offered for $ 70 a month unlimited traffic. It is much faster and cheaper than the absolute majority of US Internet providers. Keep in mind that the home Internet access to the Internet is much more expensive than in Russia and Ukraine, so that for the United States these prices - $ 70 per gigabit, unlimited traffic - this is a real revolution.
Basic access to 5 Mbit / s is available at all without a subscription fee. Google Fiber project was announced in July 2012, and the first home in Kansas City connected November 13, 2012.
Source: habrahabr.ru/post/212597/
