Google Inc. says its crews have stretched more than 100 miles of the fiber optic cables that will ultimately carry whip-fast Internet speeds to Kansas City homes.
In a blog post authored by Google community manager Rachel Hack, the company offered a brief question-and-answer update from John Toccalino. He's a project manager on what the search giant calls Google Fiber.His explanation gives a broad-strokes description of the project that will take global Internet connections to what it calls "Google Fiber Huts." Fiber optic data lines will run from those huts to utility poles or trenches, or both, and then to homes and businesses.Google hasn't yet described what the "equipment aggregator huts" will do, how big they are, or where they're being stationed. But the post quotes Toccalino as saying "we've already built half of them!" A Google spokeswoman said the huts are about the size of a small garden shed. They have roofs, unlike the cube-like metal boxes deployed by other utilities, and will be taller than an average person. The huts will not be decorated with Google branding.The post also suggested that Google would "hang fiber throughout almost all of" Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., and "once we're done with that we can move to the next step where we'll be connecting fiber to homes.""We still have a while before infrastructure is complete," Toccalino said in the blog post. "Kansas City is big."A Google spokeswoman said "we're standing by hopefully having service in the first half of 2012" to some neighborhoods in Kansas City, Kan. Google has gained approval in both Missouri and Kansas to sell a cable-like television service. The company promises data speeds about 100 times faster than the broadband norm for Internet downloads, and 1,000 times faster for uploads of information. The company still has yet to say what would be included in its Internet service, or when it will be available in any particular area.
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