Hi Jared You can now nominate your community
http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/options Regards Abdul On 2/10/10 2:18 PM, "Jared Mauch" <ja...@puck.nether.net> wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Jared Mauch wrote: >>> I think it's great! >>> >>> I've been preparing to float a similar idea locally. >>> >>> If this is how they use their market cap, I would love for them to do it in >>> my local market, which does seem to hold a near-and-dear place in the heart >>> of some google C* types. >>> >>> - Jared >>> >>> * Local details/breakdown: http://puck.nether.net/~jared/blog/?p=84 >> >> Awesome write up. >> >> Has anyone in the NANOG community been approached by google? I mean >> presumably this would require a massive coordination effort with >> existing exchange points etc. Or is google going to simply build an >> entire long haul network as well? Perhaps combine this with the containers? > > > Thanks. I want to codify it to something more (average) human-readable before > I socialize it in the local community. > > This sort of investment could have some immediate payback, esp if you have > local utility (water, power) buy-in. The challenge I see is having the > political will to undertake the project. If you adjust rates up over the > first few years until the principal is paid off, the payoff could happen in > short-order and remain competitive. > > Deploying microcell/picocell technology would be easy and could save people > like AT&T Mobility/Cingular part of their billions they look to pay for > network upgrades. A large scale project here could possibly be done > (on-poles) for as low as $44m, and possibly lower as economies of scale come > in to play. > > I'm hoping someone here reading from GOOG will suggest to any local Ann Arbor > Alum (eg: Larry Page) that this would be a chump-change investment that would > revolutionize telecommunication in the US. > > I scaled my model up to Michigan-size (for fun) and came up with a cost > somewhere around 1 Billion to run fiber down every public roadway. Taking the > GOOG market cap of ~170Bln, and if I consider Michigan average (don't know, > but please stick with me), this could be done for a small part of their market > cap, and ROI could be at a reasonable speed. GE and 10GE optics that can do > 70km are cheap, sometimes lower cost than that HDTV you just bought, this > would make life very interesting... > > - Jared
