Fiber Imperative: Congratulations to Los Angeles, Chicago and Google Fiber for Exploring Next Generation Networks

There are almost 20,000 municipalities here in the United States, and a few more just got a lot faster. Today, Google Fiber announced…

Rural Areas Lead Rocket City In Building Fiber Broadband Networks

There was big news out of Huntsville, Alabama, this morning — Google Fiber is coming to the Rocket City.

This announcement underscores the fact that, in many areas, rural America is way ahead…

This article expresses emotions similar to those that some of us techies had about Verizon FiOS, the first large-scale FTTH deployment in the world, back in 2004. Users love FiOS, but not so much more than cable to make a compelling case for continuing to push the experiment further. The reason we don’t have universal FTTH in the US is that users…

The Long March to Fiber Will Take Many Roads….

Susan Crawford wrote a much-talked about piece last week entitled “You Didn’t Notice It, But Google Fiber Just Began the Golden Age of High Speed Internet Access”. She’s right about the problem, but the Golden Age is going to be far more complex…

The Future of the U.S. is Municipal Broadband

Recent news of Gabriel Stricker returning to Google to lead policy and communications for Fiber has me quite excited about the future of broadband in the U.S. since it means Google, err Alphabet, is getting serious about its 1 GB/s fiber to the home…

State of the “Knowledge Economy” City

A quote from my friend Mayor Steve Benjamin’s State of the City speech a couple of days ago:

Imagine a new commitment to building a Smart City with high-speed gigabit fiber and focused neighborhood Wi-Fi that not only gives our students…