Google wants Dark Fibre Specialists

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Google wants Dark Fibre Specialists

Submitted by JasonD on Mon, 2005-01-17 06:44

Business Issues

Thread Title:
Gimme the bandwidth.....

Thread Url:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-5537392.html

Thread Description:

Google are advertising for a new employee. A dark fibre telecoms guy or gal.

Could they be launching a mega infrastructure project or possibly looking to enter the telecoms business?

Comments

Possibilities

Submitted by twadmin on Mon, 2005-01-17 08:20.

OK, so if they are not planning on buiding a telecom network - and i cant imagine for the life of me why they would want to attempt that...

What else could you do with a dark fibre network?

Cheaper bandwidth?

Submitted by chrisgarrett on Mon, 2005-01-17 08:57.

Could it be they just want to reduce their international bandwidth costs? If they want to expand then more local sites/services/datacenters would be a way of doing it?

Universities use Google. I

Submitted by MrMackin on Mon, 2005-01-17 09:44.

Universities use Google.

It seems that universities are also into Dark Fiber.....

GoogleFibre

Submitted by pageoneresults on Mon, 2005-01-17 10:04.

This is the beginning of GoogleFibre. Once the project is complete, there will be core GoogleFibres that expand the globe and beyond. Corporations will purchase a piece of GoogleFibre. ;)

More speculation

Submitted by twadmin on Tue, 2005-01-18 02:41.

From Dana Blankenhorn:

Quote:

If Google had its own dark fiber network, it could light that fiber and drive those costs to the ground.
Then the fiber would be open to other applications, such as:

Mirroring the entire database in multiple sites.

Caching the database, or portions of it, where laws are most advantageous for that.

Caching such things as images.

Offering a video database.

Creating "Google libraries" of others' data and mirroring it to the central database.

The opportunities are just endless.