will google build a WiMax with the 700MHze?

if they win the spectrum, is it possible that Google build a free
WiMax network, that is free to use the network.

then we may use free VOIP with Google's network.

do you think it possible ?

dragon wrote:
> if they win the spectrum, is it possible that Google build a free
> WiMax network, that is free to use the network.
>
> then we may use free VOIP with Google's network.
>
> do you think it possible ?


Who do they use for backhaul, Covad?

dragon wrote:
> if they win the spectrum, is it possible that Google build a free
> WiMax network, that is free to use the network.
>
> then we may use free VOIP with Google's network.
>
> do you think it possible ?
The "C" block has a reserve in excess of $4.5 Billion and Google
estimate it would take $12 Billion and 3years to build a 700Mhz network.

http://www.dailywireless.org/2007/10...mhz-scenarios/

Even though Google have "Loads of Money" they will expect a return on
their investment. Perhaps Cringely is correct:-
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2...14_002928.html

"First let’s start by looking at the infrastructure Google has already
built or committed to building — the largest fiber backbone in the world
and the largest and most widely distributed data center build-out in the
world. Both are FAR in excess of Google’s current or even future
requirements UNLESS they are also intended to work with a massive
700-MHz wireless network.

Imagine a hybrid wireless broadband mesh network using 700-MHz
connections for backhaul and some truly mobile links and WiFi for local
service. Google has enough experience with WiFi in Mountain View to know
that it isn’t, by itself, a good solution for wide area networks. The
key failing of metro WiFi networks is backhaul to the Internet backbone.
But if Google used its 700 MHz band for that AND implemented it as a
true mesh network, there would easily be enough capacity to serve almost
any size network given a suitable number of backbone connections.

You can find my old column about just such a network in this week’s links.

Google has experience, too, with hybrid wireless networks. Every
Google employee has the chance to take a company bus to work and every
Google bus has an EVDO-to-WiFi bridge so Googlers can surf the net on
their way to work.

It would be really cool if this Google hybrid network was truly flat
and could be maintained entirely within a single address space like, for
example, the 76 billion billion billion IPv6 addresses Google already
owns. The sudden existence of a massive IPv6 network would throw other
ISPs into a tizzy and quickly drag the rest of the net into the 21st
century, something else I could see as a Google ambition.

Finally, what links all of this together is something else I wrote
about long ago — the Google Cube. This is an access device that contains
700-MHz and WiFi radios, a tiny Linux or Linux-likeserver, and a few
gigs of flash RAM memory cache. It’s these Google Cubes that will mesh
together, acting as both WiFi access points and 700 MHz mesh backhaul
devices. Throw in some local caching, video preloading, and truly local
DNS service and suddenly you have a pretty substantial network
infrastructure that is not only massive and self-healing, IT IS ENTIRELY
PAID FOR BY CUSTOMERS. All Google needs to provide are several thousand
points-of-presence (cell towers) to connect the local mesh to the
Internet backbone.

Google couldn’t do this with WiFi alone, but with 700-MHz meshing and
backhaul they could make it work fairly easily and the entire network
could be deployed in a couple months.

For those who can’t think past search, imagine this also as Google’s
key to dominating local- and location-based search.

Forget about net neutrality and forget about making nice-nice with
broadband ISPs OR phone companies. Google would overnight become the
largest U.S. ISP with direct and very high-performance access to its
customers, including those using the new Google Phone or any other phone
that supports WiFi connections, like the iPhone and many others. Google
becomes the biggest and lowest-cost ISP and potentially the biggest and
lowest-cost mobile phone company in the bargain.

Heck of a deal."

LR wrote:

> dragon wrote:
>
>> if they win the spectrum, is it possible that Google build a free
>> WiMax network, that is free to use the network.
>>
>> then we may use free VOIP with Google's network.
>>
>> do you think it possible ?
>
> The "C" block has a reserve in excess of $4.5 Billion and Google
> estimate it would take $12 Billion and 3years to build a 700Mhz network.
>
> http://www.dailywireless.org/2007/10...mhz-scenarios/
>
> Even though Google have "Loads of Money" they will expect a return on
> their investment. Perhaps Cringely is correct:-
> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2...14_002928.html
>
> "First let’s start by looking at the infrastructure Google has already
> built or committed to building — the largest fiber backbone in the world
> and the largest and most widely distributed data center build-out in the
> world. Both are FAR in excess of Google’s current or even future
> requirements UNLESS they are also intended to work with a massive
> 700-MHz wireless network.
>
> Imagine a hybrid wireless broadband mesh network using 700-MHz
> connections for backhaul and some truly mobile links and WiFi for local
> service. Google has enough experience with WiFi in Mountain View to know
> that it isn’t, by itself, a good solution for wide area networks. The
> key failing of metro WiFi networks is backhaul to the Internet backbone.
> But if Google used its 700 MHz band for that AND implemented it as a
> true mesh network, there would easily be enough capacity to serve almost
> any size network given a suitable number of backbone connections.
>
> You can find my old column about just such a network in this week’s links.
>
> Google has experience, too, with hybrid wireless networks. Every Google
> employee has the chance to take a company bus to work and every Google
> bus has an EVDO-to-WiFi bridge so Googlers can surf the net on their way
> to work.
>
> It would be really cool if this Google hybrid network was truly flat
> and could be maintained entirely within a single address space like, for
> example, the 76 billion billion billion IPv6 addresses Google already
> owns. The sudden existence of a massive IPv6 network would throw other
> ISPs into a tizzy and quickly drag the rest of the net into the 21st
> century, something else I could see as a Google ambition.
>
> Finally, what links all of this together is something else I wrote
> about long ago — the Google Cube. This is an access device that contains
> 700-MHz and WiFi radios, a tiny Linux or Linux-likeserver, and a few
> gigs of flash RAM memory cache. It’s these Google Cubes that will mesh
> together, acting as both WiFi access points and 700 MHz mesh backhaul
> devices. Throw in some local caching, video preloading, and truly local
> DNS service and suddenly you have a pretty substantial network
> infrastructure that is not only massive and self-healing, IT IS ENTIRELY
> PAID FOR BY CUSTOMERS. All Google needs to provide are several thousand
> points-of-presence (cell towers) to connect the local mesh to the
> Internet backbone.
>
> Google couldn’t do this with WiFi alone, but with 700-MHz meshing and
> backhaul they could make it work fairly easily and the entire network
> could be deployed in a couple months.
>
> For those who can’t think past search, imagine this also as Google’s
> key to dominating local- and location-based search.
>
> Forget about net neutrality and forget about making nice-nice with
> broadband ISPs OR phone companies. Google would overnight become the
> largest U.S. ISP with direct and very high-performance access to its
> customers, including those using the new Google Phone or any other phone
> that supports WiFi connections, like the iPhone and many others. Google
> becomes the biggest and lowest-cost ISP and potentially the biggest and
> lowest-cost mobile phone company in the bargain.
>
> Heck of a deal."


So, to reiterate, who do they use for backhaul, Covad?

News wrote:
>
>
> LR wrote:
>
>> dragon wrote:
>>
>>> if they win the spectrum, is it possible that Google build a free
>>> WiMax network, that is free to use the network.
>>>
>>> then we may use free VOIP with Google's network.
>>>
>>> do you think it possible ?
>>
>> The "C" block has a reserve in excess of $4.5 Billion and Google
>> estimate it would take $12 Billion and 3years to build a 700Mhz network.
>>
>> http://www.dailywireless.org/2007/10...mhz-scenarios/
>>
>> Even though Google have "Loads of Money" they will expect a return on
>> their investment. Perhaps Cringely is correct:-
>> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2...14_002928.html
>>
>> "First let’s start by looking at the infrastructure Google has already
>> built or committed to building — the largest fiber backbone in the
>> world and the largest and most widely distributed data center
>> build-out in the world. Both are FAR in excess of Google’s current or
>> even future requirements UNLESS they are also intended to work with a
>> massive 700-MHz wireless network.
>>
>> Imagine a hybrid wireless broadband mesh network using 700-MHz
>> connections for backhaul and some truly mobile links and WiFi for
>> local service. Google has enough experience with WiFi in Mountain View
>> to know that it isn’t, by itself, a good solution for wide area
>> networks. The key failing of metro WiFi networks is backhaul to the
>> Internet backbone. But if Google used its 700 MHz band for that AND
>> implemented it as a true mesh network, there would easily be enough
>> capacity to serve almost any size network given a suitable number of
>> backbone connections.
>>
>> You can find my old column about just such a network in this week’s
>> links.
>>
>> Google has experience, too, with hybrid wireless networks. Every
>> Google employee has the chance to take a company bus to work and every
>> Google bus has an EVDO-to-WiFi bridge so Googlers can surf the net on
>> their way to work.
>>
>> It would be really cool if this Google hybrid network was truly flat
>> and could be maintained entirely within a single address space like,
>> for example, the 76 billion billion billion IPv6 addresses Google
>> already owns. The sudden existence of a massive IPv6 network would
>> throw other ISPs into a tizzy and quickly drag the rest of the net
>> into the 21st century, something else I could see as a Google ambition.
>>
>> Finally, what links all of this together is something else I wrote
>> about long ago — the Google Cube. This is an access device that
>> contains 700-MHz and WiFi radios, a tiny Linux or Linux-likeserver,
>> and a few gigs of flash RAM memory cache. It’s these Google Cubes that
>> will mesh together, acting as both WiFi access points and 700 MHz mesh
>> backhaul devices. Throw in some local caching, video preloading, and
>> truly local DNS service and suddenly you have a pretty substantial
>> network infrastructure that is not only massive and self-healing, IT
>> IS ENTIRELY PAID FOR BY CUSTOMERS. All Google needs to provide are
>> several thousand points-of-presence (cell towers) to connect the local
>> mesh to the Internet backbone.
>>
>> Google couldn’t do this with WiFi alone, but with 700-MHz meshing and
>> backhaul they could make it work fairly easily and the entire network
>> could be deployed in a couple months.
>>
>> For those who can’t think past search, imagine this also as Google’s
>> key to dominating local- and location-based search.
>>
>> Forget about net neutrality and forget about making nice-nice with
>> broadband ISPs OR phone companies. Google would overnight become the
>> largest U.S. ISP with direct and very high-performance access to its
>> customers, including those using the new Google Phone or any other
>> phone that supports WiFi connections, like the iPhone and many others.
>> Google becomes the biggest and lowest-cost ISP and potentially the
>> biggest and lowest-cost mobile phone company in the bargain.
>>
>> Heck of a deal."
>
>
> So, to reiterate, who do they use for backhaul, Covad?
If they build their own fibre backbone why would they need Covad? Does
Covad own a lot of unused fibre that Google may be prepared to lease
from them?

LR wrote:

> News wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> LR wrote:
>>
>>> dragon wrote:
>>>
>>>> if they win the spectrum, is it possible that Google build a free
>>>> WiMax network, that is free to use the network.
>>>>
>>>> then we may use free VOIP with Google's network.
>>>>
>>>> do you think it possible ?
>>>
>>>
>>> The "C" block has a reserve in excess of $4.5 Billion and Google
>>> estimate it would take $12 Billion and 3years to build a 700Mhz network.
>>>
>>> http://www.dailywireless.org/2007/10...mhz-scenarios/
>>>
>>> Even though Google have "Loads of Money" they will expect a return on
>>> their investment. Perhaps Cringely is correct:-
>>> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2...14_002928.html
>>>
>>> "First let’s start by looking at the infrastructure Google has
>>> already built or committed to building — the largest fiber backbone
>>> in the world and the largest and most widely distributed data center
>>> build-out in the world. Both are FAR in excess of Google’s current or
>>> even future requirements UNLESS they are also intended to work with a
>>> massive 700-MHz wireless network.
>>>
>>> Imagine a hybrid wireless broadband mesh network using 700-MHz
>>> connections for backhaul and some truly mobile links and WiFi for
>>> local service. Google has enough experience with WiFi in Mountain
>>> View to know that it isn’t, by itself, a good solution for wide area
>>> networks. The key failing of metro WiFi networks is backhaul to the
>>> Internet backbone. But if Google used its 700 MHz band for that AND
>>> implemented it as a true mesh network, there would easily be enough
>>> capacity to serve almost any size network given a suitable number of
>>> backbone connections.
>>>
>>> You can find my old column about just such a network in this week’s
>>> links.
>>>
>>> Google has experience, too, with hybrid wireless networks. Every
>>> Google employee has the chance to take a company bus to work and
>>> every Google bus has an EVDO-to-WiFi bridge so Googlers can surf the
>>> net on their way to work.
>>>
>>> It would be really cool if this Google hybrid network was truly flat
>>> and could be maintained entirely within a single address space like,
>>> for example, the 76 billion billion billion IPv6 addresses Google
>>> already owns. The sudden existence of a massive IPv6 network would
>>> throw other ISPs into a tizzy and quickly drag the rest of the net
>>> into the 21st century, something else I could see as a Google ambition.
>>>
>>> Finally, what links all of this together is something else I wrote
>>> about long ago — the Google Cube. This is an access device that
>>> contains 700-MHz and WiFi radios, a tiny Linux or Linux-likeserver,
>>> and a few gigs of flash RAM memory cache. It’s these Google Cubes
>>> that will mesh together, acting as both WiFi access points and 700
>>> MHz mesh backhaul devices. Throw in some local caching, video
>>> preloading, and truly local DNS service and suddenly you have a
>>> pretty substantial network infrastructure that is not only massive
>>> and self-healing, IT IS ENTIRELY PAID FOR BY CUSTOMERS. All Google
>>> needs to provide are several thousand points-of-presence (cell
>>> towers) to connect the local mesh to the Internet backbone.
>>>
>>> Google couldn’t do this with WiFi alone, but with 700-MHz meshing
>>> and backhaul they could make it work fairly easily and the entire
>>> network could be deployed in a couple months.
>>>
>>> For those who can’t think past search, imagine this also as Google’s
>>> key to dominating local- and location-based search.
>>>
>>> Forget about net neutrality and forget about making nice-nice with
>>> broadband ISPs OR phone companies. Google would overnight become the
>>> largest U.S. ISP with direct and very high-performance access to its
>>> customers, including those using the new Google Phone or any other
>>> phone that supports WiFi connections, like the iPhone and many
>>> others. Google becomes the biggest and lowest-cost ISP and
>>> potentially the biggest and lowest-cost mobile phone company in the
>>> bargain.
>>>
>>> Heck of a deal."
>>
>>
>>
>> So, to reiterate, who do they use for backhaul, Covad?
>
> If they build their own fibre backbone why would they need Covad? Does
> Covad own a lot of unused fibre that Google may be prepared to lease
> from them?


Why build, as opposed to partner with Covad's "nationwide footprint"?

News wrote:

> Why build, as opposed to partner with Covad's "nationwide footprint"?

Why be a partner when you can have full control?

LR wrote:
> News wrote:
>
>> Why build, as opposed to partner with Covad's "nationwide footprint"?
>
>
> Why be a partner when you can have full control?


Point taken, since, at this point at least, money is no object.

News wrote:
>
>
> LR wrote:
>> News wrote:
>>
>>> Why build, as opposed to partner with Covad's "nationwide footprint"?
>>
>>
>> Why be a partner when you can have full control?
>
>
> Point taken, since, at this point at least, money is no object.
It's all hypothetical and only one persons opinion so we wont know until
the winners of the bids are announced. We will then have to wait and see
what they do with it or whether they will just on them for a while.
They are a very mixed bag of bidders:-
http://www.dailywireless.org/2007/12...-700-mhz-list/
FCC List:-
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...-07-5030A2.pdf

LR wrote:
> News wrote:
>>
>>
>> LR wrote:
>>> News wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why build, as opposed to partner with Covad's "nationwide footprint"?
>>>
>>>
>>> Why be a partner when you can have full control?
>>
>>
>> Point taken, since, at this point at least, money is no object.
> It's all hypothetical and only one persons opinion so we wont know until
> the winners of the bids are announced. We will then have to wait and see
> what they do with it or whether they will just on them for a while.
> They are a very mixed bag of bidders:-
> http://www.dailywireless.org/2007/12...-700-mhz-list/
> FCC List:-
> http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...-07-5030A2.pdf
>
>
Try again
It's all hypothetical and only one persons opinion so we wont know until
the winners of the bids are announced. We will then have to wait and see
what they do with them or whether they will just sit on them for a
while. They are a very mixed bag of bidders:-
http://www.dailywireless.org/2007/12...-700-mhz-list/
FCC List:-
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...-07-5030A2.pdf