Apps coming at 70 percent the speed of light
Widespread gigabit Ethernet of the kind that Google Fiber, Verizon FiOS, and others companies are investing in, and is in varying stages of implementation in Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah, will eventually revolutionize the current upper bounds of data transf...

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Clevelanders should come join the gigabit revolution: Lev Gonick
At the end of the 19th century, Ohio served as one of the centers of the Second Industrial Revolution -- home to innovation and success, and one of the wealthiest regions in the country. More than 100 years have passed since the Second Industrial Revolution and, again, Ohio stands at the center of a...

Becoming a Fiber-Friendly Community
This paper, from the FTTH Council's Community Toolkit conference in Kansas City, outlines a series of steps that communities should consider to clear a path for and work with a prospective broadband provider -- with emphasis on the key factors that are within the control of a community, such as acce...

Internet’s fast lane getting crowded with more services like Google Fiber
When Google Inc. tapped Kansas City as its first test bed for super-fast Internet service, the market looked poised to slingshot into a high-tech stratosphere.  Two years later, as a few Kansas City neighborhoods plug into their light-speed fiberoptics, the heights delivered by Google Fiber look les...