Google’s bid to build high-speed broadband networks may be just a test, but it’s geared to swing network neutrality more closely in the search engine’s favor. Gartner analyst Alex Winogradoff said this is the company’s latest move to federate data access among carrier’s data networks. With open networks as alternatives to private networks from Verizon and other carriers, Google wouldn’t have to deploy 20 to 30 data centers around the world to alleviate data latency and improve service quality for its search engine and other Web services. BroadPoint AmTech analyst Ben Schachter also crunched some numbers and guessed the test could cost Google $60 million to $1.6 billion.
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Google’s
pledge to build high-speed broadband networks may be just a test, but it’s
geared to swing network neutrality more closely in the search engine’s favor,
some industry experts believe.
Google Feb. 10 said that it will build broadband networks that zip 1 gigabit of data per
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