Just what can one think when coming across a text that begins with "Imagine sitting in a rural health clinic, streaming three-dimensional medical imaging over the web and discussing a unique condition with a specialist in New York?" Well, a logical and sane person would probably realize that Google is trying, beginning, or better said, continuing to take over the world. This can be nothing but good, actually, since Google starts an experiment of its own, after urging the FCC to R&D universal ultra high-speed Internet and look for creative ways to reach that.

Do mind me, but Google has unveiled its plan to build and test ultra high-speed networks across several trial locations in the United States. The giant will provide Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than the average American folk is used to, namely 1 gigabit per second via fiber-to-the-home connections.

What Google has in mind is to see what could be done with such speeds, rather than the applications that the company imagines. Among the experiments, Google is looking to next generation applications, wanting to see what developers and users could do if provided with ultra high-speeds, whether it will be bandwidth-intensive software or services.

As for the physical part, the company wishes to test new ways of building fiber networks, as to be able to provide better feedback, information and support for deployments elsewhere and will share key solutions learned within the project. Furthermore, the project will enable users to have multiple choices regarding service providers, by operating an "open access" network.

Just recently, Google took the first step and put out a request for information (RFI) to aid identify interested communities. Last to be mention, but not least, is the fact that the search giant awaits responses both from local government and public members.


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