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On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: > > It may have something to do with the possibility that > GoogleNet will need an infrastructure to tie together > it's WiFi offering: > Or... perhaps they just don't want to pay transit prices, and they think darkfiber and all its accutriments will be less than transit prices (which I don't want to debate, I'll take it on faith it is), for all their 'internal' communications? There are probably a dozen reasons, ending with: "Vint wants a new network to play with" ... It's their money, let them put it back into the economy? :) > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/20/AR2005092000348.html > > - ferg > > > -- [email protected] wrote: > > > I'm kind of surprised that I hadn't seem mention of it > > here before now, but Om Malik points out in his blog that > > Google is reviewing bids for it's natioal DWDM network: > > > > http://gigaom.com/2005/09/19/google-asks-for-googlenet-bids/ > > There seems to be a trend whereby anyone who can aggregate > sufficient traffic to warrant their own IP network is doing > so and offloading the so-called public Internet. In the case > of Google it is reminiscent of the way the television networks > aggregated broadcast content way back in the 60's. > > Ten years ago, the idea that there could be a public Internet > which anyone could use for any purpose was rather new. Is this > concept now on the decline? > > --Michael Dillon > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > [email protected] or [email protected] > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ >
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