For any business in the Google Fiber vicinities, access to 1Gps speeds will allow them to accomplish every task more quickly.
Google Fiber is good: access to blistering fast internet is spurring the demand and purchase of Video On Demand (VOD), while the audience for traditional broadcast television collapses.
Data centers also require access to fiber optics.
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We might also have some emergency access to that fiber optic connection.
Gartner sees the wireless corporate network market growing at a compound annual rate of 18.4% from 2011 to 2016, and the market for high-speed fiber-optic Internet-access equipment growing at a compound annual rate of 12.1% from 2010 to 2014.
At the same time, Google also recently launched its own fiber optic network to provide Internet access in Kansas City.
But what about outlying parts of the country -- and, for that matter, the rest of the world -- that don't have easy access to this speedy fiber?
Nearly 20% of Americans now have access to broadband from fiber-to-the-home, which today can reach speeds of up to 300 Mbps and the promise, soon, of 1 Gigabit speeds.
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Instead, high-speed wireless access services can leapfrog the fiber lines directly to your computer and provide even higher rates of data transmission-- over the same CDMA network that's already in place to route cell phone traffic.
Today VTel confirmed that 600 out of the 17, 500 households it covers in Vermont could access its new, 1Gbps fiber network, adding to the small minority of Americans on Internet speeds that are 100 times faster than the average connection.
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Many have fiber running within their city for high-speed access for government, schools, libraries, and other public venues.
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If, on the other hand, the city leased its fiber capacity to private companies, homeowners would have access to faster broadband.
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The company has bought additional spectrum, deployed improved High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) software and added fiber backhaul, which carries data to wireless distribution points.
But Camarata and Dr. Kim say Memorial Hermann's social broadcast will break new ground in brain surgery live tweets by sharing the feed from Dr. Kim's fiber optic microscope to give viewers a new level of access and understanding.
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As of June, 2011, 95% of all Americans had access to broadband Internet from cable, DSL, fiber or other wired services.
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It offers telephone service and Internet access over 17, 000 kilometers of high-capacity fiber.
They are moving faster than before, Wired says, knowing their access to traditional funding will tighten as the possibility of Google Fiber approaches.
It started as a small local phone service, but he has since expanded it to include a 25, 000-kilometer fiber backbone, a fat slice of nationwide cellular radio spectrum and an Internet access provider.
It started as a small-scale local phone service, but he has since expanded it to include a 16, 000-mile fiber backbone, a fat slice of nationwide cellular radio spectrum and a major Internet access provider.
If Cioffi is right, it does not look likely that Google Fiber will reach the critical mass needed to get the additional advertising revenues from faster Internet access it would need to come close to justifying its enormous investment.
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) mulled rolling out Voice-over-Internet Protocol, or VoIP, features to its new fiber network, which Google began lighting up last month, said Milo Medin, vice president of Google Access Services.
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