Courtesy of IP Media Monitor, a story about Google reviewing bids for building its own optical network. You need to register, but it is free. Comments plz?
Any chance of someone quoting the important bits? I hate signing up to sites just to read one thing..
yeah i'm not going to sign up either but apparently there is speculation that it may have something to do with the giant metal crates that they have in their underground parking lot in mountain view... many say that these are mobile datacenters that they can drop off anywhere they have fiber and electricity, thereby creating a redundant nationwide network of cheap datacenters...
It is indeed interesting all the same as maybe soon we will be seeing them actually putting it into effect!