Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-13 Thread Anton Kapela
> James Hess wrote: >> For now.. with 1gigabit residential connections,  BCP 38  OUGHT to be >> Google's answer.  If Google handles that properly,  they  _should_ >> make it mandatory that all traffic  from residential customers be >> filtered, in all cases,   in order to  only forward   packets wi

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-12 Thread Jared Mauch
On Feb 12, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > BCP 38 is all fine and dandy, and you should implement it, but it's not > going to stop the botnets. Yup. Many have these devices they call "Routers" they buy locally that translate spoofed addresses to some well-known outside "public" IP. (T

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-12 Thread Joel Jaeggli
James Hess wrote: > For now.. with 1gigabit residential connections, BCP 38 OUGHT to be > Google's answer. If Google handles that properly, they _should_ > make it mandatory that all traffic from residential customers be > filtered, in all cases, in order to only forward packets with > t

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-11 Thread Joel Jaeggli
David Hubbard wrote: > Residential computers with enough bandwidth to DoS > hosting providers; that should be fun. Maybe it will > encourage the incumbant ISP's to start offering users > meaningful bgp communities since they won't be able > to keep up with the abuse reports. Residential custome

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Henry Linneweh
offer fiber to end users > What do folks think? I think it's a better use of their capital resources than paying big fat bonuses to big fat executives. Sounds like a well funded initiative that may provide an interesting platform to explore new technologies and develop a new array of appl

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread ck
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: > It would be nice to hear from local folks about how the WiFi > experiment in Mountain View worked out. > i use the mtview wifi almost everyday, and it works great the last metrics i saw were presented by tropos and indicated that about 600g

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Jorge Amodio
> What do folks think? I think it's a better use of their capital resources than paying big fat bonuses to big fat executives. Sounds like a well funded initiative that may provide an interesting platform to explore new technologies and develop a new array of applications. It would be nice to he

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Joel Esler
I have gig copper ran all over my house. Handy for large file transfers. I have fios as well, and wish it was faster. (yes, all I know is it's a setting, it costs them nothing more) -- Joel Esler 302-223-5974 Sent from my iPhone On Feb 10, 2010, at 8:02 PM, "Luan Nguyen" wrote: They do

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread James Hess
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:00 PM, David Hubbard wrote: > Residential computers with enough bandwidth to DoS > hosting providers; that should be fun.  Maybe it will Enough to DoS hosting providers based on _current_ practices. If 1g FTTH catches on, hosting providers will probably want 10/100 Gig

RE: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Luan Nguyen
They don't have a field in the MLS for that, but most people put the description FTTH in. There are quite a few communities with FTTH in the Wash DC metropolitan area that is not FIOS. Openband is one of them serving my house. The 100M fiber comes into a transition network converter and then to a

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Leo Bicknell
There are some FTTH deployments in the US, like the well known FIOS to a number of lesser known municipal deployments in small towns. If you want to live in a house that is served in this way, how do you find it. I don't believe there is a "FTTH" field in MLS yet. Would be nice to have a google

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Ramanpreet Singh
Are they going to use Google routers for the deployment? On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-10/google-plans-to-build-high-speed-fiber-optic-networks-update2-.html > http://googleblo

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
Our typical gambling/casino customer has maybe 1 - 2 Mbps available to them. Pretty much anyone in the U.S. could DDoS them if they didn't have their HTTP/HTTPS traffic proxied and there are plenty more without any protection at all. Jeff On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Tony Varriale wrote: >>

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Tony Varriale
Residential computers with enough bandwidth to DoS hosting providers; that should be fun. Maybe it will encourage the incumbant ISP's to start offering users meaningful bgp communities since they won't be able to keep up with the abuse reports. David That's already here today. tv

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Scott Weeks wrote: When you select 'nominate your community' you're taken to a 'create an account' page. I doubt they'd consider Sunset Beach on the North Shore of Oahu Hawaii anyway. That's kinda out there... ;-) No but maybe Kailua (home of Obama's "western whitehous

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Scott Weeks
--- ae...@cisco.com wrote: From: Abdulkadir Egal You can now nominate your community http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/options --- When you select 'nominate your community' you're taken to a 'create an account' page. I doubt they'd c

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Charles N Wyble wrote: announced a v6 beta, and impulse.net for folks in the SoCal region. Not sure of any other CLEC types offering v6, but if you are speak up! I suspect you're more likely to find regional ISPs offering v6 than CLECs. The latter seem driven by the sale

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Charles N Wyble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> > I honestly wonder if they will use ipv4 or ipv6 for their rollout... > Could be interesting to watch! > Hopefully both. This could be one of the first large scale, dual stacked offerings to end users. There is of course Comcast who recently anno

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Charles N Wyble wrote: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-10/google-plans-to-build-high-speed-fiber-optic-networks-update2-.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html What do folks think? Wonderful move - might breath life b

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Abdulkadir Egal
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" wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Jared Mauch wrote

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Charles N Wyble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jared Mauch 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 thi

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Ken Gilmour
Maybe they're getting their Ideas from the Irish :). Magnet (www.magnet.ie) does a similar thing which started over four years ago. They offer fiber to the home and you can use it for triple-play. I believe when they started the offering, the bandwidth was (initially intended to be) limited only b

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Ronald Cotoni
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Matt Simmons wrote: > >> I'm really interested in their distribution ideas, as well as the >> bottleneck from the Google network to the rest of the internet. >> >> Ah, who am I kidding, it's not like anyone ca

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Jared Mauch
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 >> m

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Matt Simmons wrote: > I'm really interested in their distribution ideas, as well as the > bottleneck from the Google network to the rest of the internet. > > Ah, who am I kidding, it's not like anyone cares about the rest of the > internet, right? The WSJ says: "In

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: > 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

RE: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread David Hubbard
From: Florian Weimer [mailto:f...@deneb.enyo.de] > > * David Hubbard: > > > Residential computers with enough bandwidth to DoS > > hosting providers; that should be fun. > > How is this different from a typical dorm network? > (Perhaps with all that P2P filtering software in place, > it's a mer

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Charles N Wyble
-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

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* David Hubbard: > Residential computers with enough bandwidth to DoS > hosting providers; that should be fun. How is this different from a typical dorm network? (Perhaps with all that P2P filtering software in place, it's a mere self-DoS nowadays, but the analogy was not that far off five years

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Matt Simmons
I'm really interested in their distribution ideas, as well as the bottleneck from the Google network to the rest of the internet. Ah, who am I kidding, it's not like anyone cares about the rest of the internet, right? --Matt On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: > -BEGIN P

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread James Jones
ROFL On 2/10/10 4:00 PM, David Hubbard wrote: Residential computers with enough bandwidth to DoS hosting providers; that should be fun. Maybe it will encourage the incumbant ISP's to start offering users meaningful bgp communities since they won't be able to keep up with the abuse reports. Dav

RE: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread David Hubbard
On 2/10/2010 12:30, Charles N Wyble wrote: > > http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-10/google-plans-to-build-high-s peed-fiber-optic-networks-update2-.html > > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experiment al.html > > What do folks think? > > Residential compute

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: > On 2/10/2010 12:30, Charles N Wyble wrote: > > > http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-10/google-plans-to-build-high-speed-fiber-optic-networks-update2-.html > > > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Jared Mauch
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://p

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/10/2010 12:30, Charles N Wyble wrote: > http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-10/google-plans-to-build-high-speed-fiber-optic-networks-update2-.html > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html > > What do folks think? > Optimistic view: It can force

Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Charles N Wyble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-10/google-plans-to-build-high-speed-fiber-optic-networks-update2-.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html What do folks think? Granted it's very early on, and g00g