Internet search services provider Google Inc., US, has announced plans to test an ultra high-speed broadband network at Stanford University. The company will provide Internet speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second to around 850 faculty- and staff-owned homes on Stanford's Palo Alto, California, campus. Stanford alumni include Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Google has said that it will begin breaking ground on the project, which will use fibre optic technology, in early 2011.
Earlier this year, Google announced plans to provide 1 GP per second fibre-to-the-home networks in "one or more trial locations" in the US serving at least 50,000 people and potentially as many as 500,000. According to the company's project manager, James Kelly, the Stanford trial will be a key step towards that goal.
The deployment is projected to help Google scale its project more effectively to larger communities. Across the US, various communities have been seeking to be selected for the Google Fiber project.
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