[ML-General] Google Fiber coming to Huntsville

[Michael Carroll]

The point of pulling the quote from the article was not to praise AL.com's
deep technical reporting, just to show that initial rollout will be
Huntsville only. :p

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Hunter Fuller <hfuller at pixilic.com> wrote:

> > Dark fiver is also private fiber too.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre
>
> Not necessarily - it is possible to lease a fiber cable and only use a
> few pairs of it.
>
> But we're really talking about two different things. Huntsville
> already has fiber all over the place, even in your neighborhood (yes,
> you reading this, probably). That's what they are leasing to Google.
> Some of this is Huntsville City fiber, some of it's from service
> providers (especially Level3). Once Google uses this existing fiber to
> get to our neighborhoods, they'll be installing new fiber to our
> homes. It's a totally different use case for fiber - usually only one
> strand to each home, and using a passive optical network.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_optical_network
> --
> Hunter Fuller
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:00 PM, WebDawg <webdawg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Michael Carroll
> > <carroll.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> The AL.com article seems to indicate that the Google portion of the
> rollout
> >> is all
> >> Huntsville.(
> http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2016/02/google_fiber_is_bringing_its_u.html
> ):
> >>
> >> The utility, which serves all of Madison County, will run fiber into the
> >> county – at first to substations and other infrastructure – raising the
> >> possibility of providers bringing gigabit service to Madison and rural
> >> areas, too.
> >>
> >> "But the work we're doing to lease the dark fiber to (Google) is just
> within
> >> the city limits of Huntsville," Stowe said. Dark fiber is fiber-optic
> cable
> >> before data is moving through it.
> >
> > Dark fiver is also private fiber too.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre
> >
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