By: Clint Boulton, eWeek
Google is ready to build out its high-speed fiber network in Kansas, paving the way for the company to build thousands of miles of cables and other infrastructure across Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. The company selected Kansas City out of more than 1,100 companies last March as the winning bidder for its fiber network, which aims to shuttle data at 1G bps to thousands of homes in the city. Woven together as part of a big broadband fiber mesh, the cable network will facilitate data at “speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have today,” according to Kevin Lo, general manager for Google Access. Google will build the fiber backbone and then connect Google Fiber into homes across Kansas City, though it hasn’t said which neighborhoods will be connected first.
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