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Austin, Texas is the next Google Fiber city.
Two years after launching the first Google Fiber project in Kansas City, Google confirmed its intention to bring a similar network to Austin by mid-2014.
Google provides a free 5-7 Mbps data service to residents who pay the upfront fiber connection fee. Service plans then scale up to symmetric Gigabit connectivity ($70 per month). A separate Google Fiber TV service now offers nearly 200 HD TV channels.
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From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about FTTH. Here is what it replaced:
ADSL / ADSL2+ served from 1999. What ultimately replaced it?
ADSL / ADSL2+ split the copper-loop spectrum into hundreds of DMT subcarriers, assigning most bandwidth downstream; reach and rate fell off sharply with loop length. Its job passed to FTTH — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
