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Stacey Higginbotham Feb 12, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- San Francisco pilot continues

Sonic brings gigabit service to the East Bay’s Brentwood

Sonic, the regional ISP that is transitioning from a copper-based DSL and telephone company to a fiber-to-the-home provider, has announced plans to…

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Craig Settles Nov 30, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Sacramento’s Hacker Lab calls AT&T’s gigabit bluff

Hacker Lab, together with its partner Consolidated Communications, proved that communities needn’t fear the wrath of giant incumbents or grovel in hopes of receiving their broadband largess.…

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Craig Settles, Gigabit Nation Sep 6, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Simplicity, innovation and the death of anti-muni network laws

State laws that hinder efforts to build municipal broadband networks can be repealed or dismantled, and showing startups using gigabit networks and the promise of economic development is a good place to start.…

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Craig Settles, Gigabit Nation May 31, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

The killer gigabit app? It’s not what you think.

ISPs and naysayers will argue the consumers and businesses don't yet need gigabit broadband because there's nothing people can do with it yet. But that's not the point. The speed is the app.…

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Stacey Higginbotham Jan 8, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Gigabit Squared co-founder and former president resigns amid questions over Seattle deal

The former president and co-founder of Gigabit Squared, a company that has apparently lost a contract to help bring gigabit broadband to Seattle, has resigned from any role in the company's operations.…

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Om Malik Aug 2, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Chattanooga paper fires columnist who blasted the president & lamented gigabit fiber

Drew Johnson, a columnist for Chattanooga Free-Press newspaper, recently wrote an editorial that blasted President Obama, “Take your jobs plan and shove…

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Stacey Higginbotham Dec 14, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Seattle’s planned fiber network: The gigabit is in the details

Seattle, the University of Washington and Gigabit Squared have teamed up to build out a gigabit network. The plan was announced on Thursday but I followed up with Gigabit Squared's president to get more information on costs, technologies and when this network might be live.…

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Om Malik Nov 19, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Bristol, another Tennessee town is getting Gigabit broadband

With current broadband market is essentially a comfortable duopoly of cable and telecom operators with little competitive pressure that leads to forward looking features. It is no surprise that cities are looking to take matters in their own hands taking a cue from Bristol, Tennessee.…

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Stacey Higginbotham Sep 25, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Is the FCC planning to propose some new broadband math?

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski spoke today on the state of U.S. broadband. He didn't break new ground, but he did push for faster and higher capacity broadband in the U.S. The question is whether he plans to get the agency to do anything about it.…

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Stacey Higginbotham Jul 25, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Ahead of Google Fiber launch, here’s what another gig city has already learned

Google plans to launch a fiber network in Kansas City with the goal of seeing what people there can do with a gigabit connection. But as one city that already has a gigabit network can tell you, the answer so far may be, "Not much."…

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Stacey Higginbotham Jun 11, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Touchdown! Florida Gators get gigabit broadband.

Residents of a small section of Gainesville, Fla. will get a gigabit network thanks to the GigU project that wants to deliver fiber to the home to areas around U.S. colleges and universities.…

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Stacey Higginbotham May 23, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Meet the startup that wants to speed up U.S. broadband

Gigabit Squared broke onto the scene on Wednesday, announcing it would spend $200 million to bring gigabit broadband to six college towns in conjunction with the Gig.U program. But the startup aims higher: It wants to change the economics of delivering fiber to the home everywhere.…

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Stacey Higginbotham May 23, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

An Ohio startup + $200M = Gigabit broadband for 6 towns

The Gig.U project, which aims to improve American innovation by deploying gigabit broadband networks to college towns, has teamed up with a startup called Gigabit Squared, which will provide $200 million to actually deploy those networks to six unnamed towns.…

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Edge & Networking, Technology
Stacey Higginbotham Mar 1, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

A gigabit is the loneliest number

The guys at the Lamp Post Group in Chattanooga, Tenn., have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to bandwidth. The city boasts the first real gigabit speeds in the U.S., but it doesn't have another gigabit city nearby to talk to. Anyone want to help?…

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Edge & Networking, Technology
Stacey Higginbotham Nov 8, 2011 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

For science, big data is the microscope of the 21st century

Johns Hopkins is building a 100 gigabit per second network to shuttle data from the campus to other large computing centers. The network would be capable of transferring the amount of data equivalent to 80 million file cabinets filled with text each day.…

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Stacey Higginbotham Sep 15, 2011 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Life in the fast lane, making the terabit age possible

We want information, and we want it now, so technologists are racing to keep up. From a stealthy startup in New Mexico getting funded to Infinera providing gear that could download Netflix's entire library in 5 seconds, the secret for our need for speed is light.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Edge & Networking, Technology
Stacey Higginbotham Jun 13, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Forget fiber; cable shows off 4.5 Gbps speeds

The cable business isn't going to cede its share of the broadband market by waiting around for coaxial cable to become obsolete, and now cable providers won't have to make an expensive transition to a fiber-to-the-home infrastructure to achieve gigabit networks.…

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Edge & Networking, Technology
Craig Settles May 10, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Google, Kansas City and the Nation’s Gigabit Economic Policy

Want to improve the economy? Then demand better broadband. Policymakers at all levels of government need to watch municipal efforts such as those in Kansas City, Kan. with Google's fiber network. That gigabit network could prove the link between broadband and economic development.…

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Edge & Networking, Technology
Stacey Higginbotham Apr 29, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Faster! Faster! Scientists Push 100 Terabit Speeds

Two research groups in the last few weeks have shown off 100 terabit per second speeds delivered over fiber connections. The advancement in speeds is both unexpected and necessary as we rely on broadband as the interconnect for our increasingly digital lives.…

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