Google Fiber: Ultra High Speed Broadband coming to Kansas City, KS

As part of our overall goal to make the web better for users, last year we announced a new project: to provide a community with Internet access more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have today. After a careful review, we're very happy to announce that we will build our ultra high-speed network in Kansas City, Kansas. We've signed a development agreement with the city, and we'll be working closely with local organizations, businesses and universities to bring a next-generation web experience to the community.
Thank you to every community and individual that submitted a response, joined a rally, starred in a KZbin video or otherwise participated.

[@BIgKC913]

As a Wyandotte HS Bulldogg class of 1995 , this makes me so proud. Proud to be from WYCO, proud to be part of the KC Metro area. Lets go WYCO!!!!!!!

[@dayglotonite]

This is amazing. Google is a leader in Information Technology solutions. I'm surprised that not that many people have watched this. As of, April 1, 2011 @ 2:27AM PDT, there have been only 1,288 views, with 48 comments, 42 likes and for some reason 1 dislike.

[@menukavishal4794]

Small business something big safety and security on👍

[@insightified]

America is behind many countries in speed simply because the distances here are enormous. It is a five minute drive from my house to my grocery store here in Arizona. When I lived in Prague, same store was a two minute walk. What I am trying to say is that the operational costs are tenfold, so please don't impose it as a flaw.

[@andizle123]

It's actually something that is still up for debate. It depends on what you define as "The Internet" do you consider it to be the infrastructure, the protocols, or just the connection itself. It is widely thought to have been an international effort. Not just of a single person, or nation.

[@kingoftherobots]

I love it when Americans use the word historical to describe there buildings; bet it's like 70 years old

[@MBP6705]

"So guess why we are here today? After an incredible careful evaluation, New York City is our first choice." That could have been the funniest joke and the biggest dick move ever! xD

[@muCephei_]

This is a genius move by Google as having full control of the Fiber network in Kansas and into other states is just a beginning in eventually becoming a world corporation. Too bad the earth is not going to last long enough for them to achieve that dream.

[@ese_cholito]

Hey they offer the best products out there and care about their consumers(aka product) I don't mind being Google's product or consumer, I'm happy cuz they treat me right :)

[@Corroidz]

Wait?! Does this mean Verizon can't dominate the lines anymore? Hell yeah!

[@charbax]

I'm moving to Kansas.

[@Bobaklives]

It would be hilarious if this were a part of Google's elaborate April Fools jokes that were all posted on this exact same day by the same account!

[@Sargaroth]

Just a small recommendation to Google and other companies in general who choose to host conferences like this one with amplified sound: Please, hire a sound engineer that knows how to trim in a live system. During the whole presentation, there's a very high risk for feedback loops, primarily depending on the rooms natural frequency response. Now, if I can hear that through KZbins compressed and LQ sound, is that really something a billion dollar corporation could take into account?

[@SasawatChanate]

The video start to out of sync with the audio on the Governor's Speech. Anyway, you're the best Google!!! Hope you would come to Bangkok, Thailand. =P

[@d3221ck]

movies > paper back video games > watching mom

[@trignite]

i hate how Americans complain about their internet speed when its so much better then anything i can get here in Australia.

[@imca111]

i wish my high school had an auditorium like that

[@Brian1454]

"more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have today" SO HOW FAST IS IT?!

[@lfcampos007]

Congratulations, Kansas City

[@MBP6705]

Thank god somebody is doing this. It's a sad day at my house - my 4G phone is 10x faster than my fucking internet connection. Way to go Google!

[@295728735]

Yay! The google Monopoply grows bigger and bigger, and they can now stalk everything!

[@elrojomuerto6x]

Thank God Google's motto is "Dont be evil" otherwise judgement day would have already been upon us

[@JACOBFLARSEN]

I already have 100mbs. And that used to be pretty much, and now this?! :D Can't wait till it get to denmark!

[@ukeuwatch]

This is great as far as it goes, good for Kansas City :) But what about rural broadband coverage in Kansas? Not for Google to sort. The telcos won't do it by themselves either, experience would suggest. So what else is there but the FCC to make sure it happens?

[@markusariliu]

@YVJohnny Sorry you are confusing two separate things. The INTERNET is a connection of computers which was invented in the USA. The World Wide Web as we know it today or HTML is the software laid on top of that framework.

[@Corroidz]

First thing that came to my mind is that whenever someone has a great connection on Xbox Live, I'll automatically assume they're from Kansas City. Haha.

[@bengocnam1]

And this is how a story about game addiction in Kansas started

[@DiegoGuillermoSchmidt]

I live in Argentina, i will see this Internet kind of speeds in 20 years.

[@seppomuppit]

good work clapping into the microphone bro!

[@humanyoda]

I think current broadband speeds are sufficient for everything people need.

[@introspectacle1]

What's retarded though is that most servers cannot provide content nearly fast enough to worry about speeds 100 times faster than the average. It's like putting an enormous showerhead on your shower and expecting to have a waterfall coming out. Just because you can *potentially* receive data at superhigh speeds doesn't mean that the content can be provided by other servers that quickly...unless you're requesting info from multiple servers at one time, then I could see this being useful.

[@Zionikk]

Since America is so far behind, make Google Fiber Nationwide! I need it bad in Ohio.

[@menukavishal4794]

All in one place ❤️

[@rfry]

Sweet more speed for streaming services... just wait till your internet connection is faster than your harddrive or SSD drives... than there would be no need to have large harddrives just have everything in cloud. Games, Movies, Music, all on demand at lower costs.

[@raney150]

next generation web for the U.S. is this generation web for most of the developed world.

[@RawrIsMemeing]

i wish you did too....because then we could have amazing internet together!

[@were562]

Half the crowd: Whats internet?!?

[@ElginU1613]

Google should become the leader of the world. They are progressing so fast in tech. on their own. Imagine if they had access to all the worlds resources? We could be colonizing the moon by this winter I bet.

[@Zombl337]

If every 1 had a steady 15Mbps Down/5Mbps Up, I think the net would take its first major step forward.

[@BigDaddyDaveinKC]

@Sampdelu The mic is not on the cameras (I know I was on one) the mic you are speaking of is the lav on the CFO

[@lusaka99]

In east African we never had broadband but in 2009 things changed and now we can get up to 1terabyte. yes in Africa America don't have heart attack

[@AppleHardware]

@heftigpro In the Netherlands everyone can buy a 120 Mbit/s connection already, it doesn't matter where you live. It only costs 50 bucks a month.

[@sohan019]

holy shit did you actually take time and look this up?

[@skelletonboner]

the woman at the start seems to stop very often for applause

[@geetarwanabe]

@ProjectBerklee they've been talking about bringing out a "super fast broadband" for well over a year now, which would be cheaper and more powerful than companies out there today. This isn't april fools.

[@Freshbott2]

It would be awesome if Google came to Australia and helped build our fibre-broadband network! 'Cause $50,000,000,000 later and the Labour Party's too damn stupid to figure it out themselves.

[@PhasedragonWF]

@Young Stunna Pirate bay is a torrent website, meaning that unless the other seeders live in Kansas you still gotta wait 2 hours or more

We need the same in India too :)

[@sagan666]

The new problem will be disk I/O although SSD's might solve that.. Still its good to see massive progress like this,

[@nickdonley515]

this is the 1st time i thought "we are now living in the future" lol

[@EletteL]

2.28 -it's that gmail motion boring office sign guy -lick a stamp and stick it- hahahah :) I'd laugh if it was a prank so they wud be like " were giving u a google fiber-"and then everyone claps and are all excited and then the google's like "just kidding aprils fool"

[@heftigpro]

@riveran21 my fault! Meant to write that 1GBit/s equals 125MByte/s. Obviously 400Mbit/s is 50MByte/s which is only half of what Google will offer in Kansas.

[@UmairNadeem]

you guys do realize this is an april fools joke? all the videos by google in the suggestions are uploaded on march 30-31 and are all jokes. too good to be true.

[@NelsonRivera21]

@heftigpro I'm not sure what kind of math this is you are practicing, but 1 Gigabit/s is equal to 1 Billion Bits and is 1/10th of a Gigabyte, which is equal to 10 Billion bits. Additionally, 1 Gigabit/s is equal to 1000 Mbits/s, which means that based on your "tested" scenario of 400 Mbits/s this Internet speed is still planned to be 2 1/2 times faster than the 400 Mbits/s you were mentioning.

[@bighands69]

Look at all the sheep stand up at once. What lucky sheep. The types of applications available with 1 gigabit per second at community level is mind boggling. Live video stream at high def with no lag. Cloud base gaming with no compromise and augment reality app.

[@MistahhB]

I could order a gigabit internet today if I wanted to, but there is really no need for such a high speed today. I have 24meg and it works pretty much instantly. The only thing that would motivate higher speeds are if you download shitloads, but the average user won't need a gigabit today

[@LeeBailey1]

Why Kansa? Is it because it's the centre of the universe? Google fibre hey, well I hope your ordering and delivery mechanisms are going to be better than the recent Nexus range farce.

[@InjecteDVenoM]

Yeah, Australia needs this pretty bad. Our internet speeds suck or are too expensive.

[@milesbennetthogerty]

i live in KS :). So excited!

[@ThePwnedsouthpark]

When will Google introduce this to the whole wide world?

[@strichard46]

Hey Google, My school is new and we have horrible computers and I would appreciate it if you would donate either money, computers or both. Please read this and think about what kind of future we will have together. Sincerely, Richard

[@charanjeevs]

The mayor like most people here seem to have no idea what to do with the bandwidth!!!

[@Borah06]

granted her math is bad (by a factor of about 10), i think by 1200 texts, she is referring to sent/received as a total: A rather extensive study showed teens send roughly 3150 texts a month, and assuming an equal amount per day, that's 100 text messages sent (and roughly another 100 received) per day. That's 200 texts that aren't sent during ~8 hours of sleep, or during classes (maybe). So about 100 sent/received in the morning is more reasonable sounding. Would link study, but it won't fit.

[@Renne308]

One of their rules is "Don't be evil". that at least makes your claim a bit less coherent.

[@mage101aoe]

I thought the mayer was nodding yes... the entire time.

[@theinterportal]

Ha! The country with the highest GDP is slower than Singapore, my country, by 3 years in its roll out of Fibre Optics. Now, almost 97% of the country has been outfitted with Fibre Termination points in households and businesses.

[@16m49x3]

well, the convension is that b = bits and B = bytes. Bytes are a great part of my studies, maybe you confused them with each other. :) Cheers

[@Forrestwilliam]

Americans want fast internet? Really? How did they figure that out? Ground breaking information

[@lap87]

Sweden owns, Korea is above us though in the toplist of most highspeed users. i love my 100mbit fiber :D

[@slovokia]

Brownback is mr scopes trial personified

[@ThreePhase470]

notice the cute lady at the end pulling out her cell :P

[@SpinyNormanDinsdale]

@ElginU1613 It certainly keeps the western hemisphere powerful I must say!

[@THEno1SonicFan]

@Chiva2699 It blows b/c you gotta have both hdds for it to function. Sata alone is plenty fast. No need for raid.

[@Gameboygenius]

Always "Kansas City, Kansas". So people don't confuse it with Kansas City, Missouri. :p

[@heytheremarcus]

THOSE KIDS ARE SO LUCKY!!!

[@TedManiax]

My internet is twenty megabytes... One Gig? HOLY SHIT....

[@TutorialsForYou19]

So? Their products and services are better than any other companies.

[@raney150]

@Sw3fi Finland isn't the only one. We in the U.S. are way behind in technology

[@Cyyc.]

Incorrect, a "Byte" is made up of exactly 8 "bits". So therefore in this case, an internet connect of 1 Gigabits per second, is the equivalent of 125 megabytes. (1000/8)

[@sccrstud92]

This is a very good April Fool's video.

[@Wastedpotential9]

ohh man im moving to Kansas as soon as possible

[@markusariliu]

@introspectacle1 nope simply a member of the new age information highway terminals designed to suck up all information relative to our mission. :D

[@bettyjane007]

for some reason it looks convincing, but im skeptical due to the fact it was posted before april fool's day

[@heftigpro]

@AppleHardware Good thing! With 20 Mbit/s where I live I can be more than happy. There are people in the landside that don't even have broadband yet.

[@grumble82]

@pelle1338 There's 1000/1000 available at select locations, just like 1000/100 isn't available to all of Sweden

[@2randomperson]

idk much about internet speed but does this mean if i had a 1gb video it would upload to youtube in a second?

[@holockcreateinc]

Did Cindy demonstrates how to text 1200 times in one hour?

[@waffles89fc]

This is typical of Americans. They announce 1gb speeds as if its a new idea but businesses in the uk already have 1gb speeds, the only new thing here is that you will be able to get it in your home if you can afford it.

[@maximus6891]

@Terrorcowboy Why not? Google is in better financial shape than lots of the economies in the world?

[@TyreeHawkins]

Nice job Google!!!

[@smalltinydove]

Did Brownback call Patrick Pichette Peter? :/ 21:39 Also, what about the Missouri side of KC?

[@straykatstudio]

Oh, could you please bring this to Alaska??

[@drake1636]

i must say, tpb will be so much faster now!

[@fuunguus]

This is great news for pirates! Capitalism ftw, haha. The main reason normal people get high speed internet connections are to download movies and games fast, and we can never download them fast enough! The demand is high, and internet providers supply :D Ain't the system great? Only other reasons you would want a fast speed connection is if you run a server, which very few do lol. 1gb/s? That is insane, it will boost downloads around the world even tho its just in Kansas!

[@TheBraden1996]

Why not start in a larger city such as New York or something similar?

[@humanyoda]

@scuster45 I don't think you will reach the 150 GB monthly cap at the speed of 250 kbps. By the way, when a client of mine was getting one 3rd of what he was paying for, I got him to call AT&T about this. They sent a technician shortly, and now he's getting most of what he's paying for. I understand that speeds may very, but providing 250 kbps on a 10 mbps plan is a crime. I think you should insist on a change (raise the speed or reduce the fee). Be on your side, scuster45!

[@andizle123]

lol not quite.... but definitely longer than the U.S. but that is to be expected with a country as large as the U.S. compared to a country as small as South Korea. It is much easier to implement new infrastructure in places with less land to cover.

[@IsraelMerljak]

@hussamabu wel... i'm not sure but i think it wasn't a history class.. as you might know, most people dont know how or when the web or internet was invented. so you just could watch the vid and ignore this minor error.

[@darrellw82]

I thought the future was to go wireless. Why are why putting more underground lines in when there are already several different companies that offer fiber. seems like were moving backwards with this.

[@chrisdane97]

ONE OF US.. ONE OF US.. ONE OF US.