FTTH Council

Is the Internet ready for the next generation of web video and robust web applications? Fiber to the Home Council presents this educational video.

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  News & Politics

[vingle]

Just six companies currently control the distribution of some 90% of films at cinemas in the US. If the makers of the film have their way, the Internet will become much the same - a lucky powerful few who can afford to are able to distribute the films and music and so forth that they like across the web, while independent creators have to deal with second rate services.

[amexnamedluis]

Teleco's need to invest in FTTH like verizon and drop copper already.

[alienc]

2010+ - Exaflood

1996 - Gigaflood

1990 - Megaflood

1980 - Kiloflood

1150s - Floods

Food for thought people, food for thought.

Think of the children.

[longviewtexasfiber]

Great video by Fiber-to-the-Home Council. Google Fiber for Communities is a coming of age technological masterpiece! The applications, devices, and technology that will evolve around Google's 1 gigabit per second fiber-to-the-home experiment blow my mind. Local entrepreneur Shawn Hill has already created a new startup around Google Fiber. He's working on his latest technology startup now. He says, " the only difference in this one and others is it involves bricks, communities, & computers."

[pratt123]

So basically this video is saying that network neutrality is dumb. I guess Big Cable and the telecos are loving this propaganda.

[Freshbott2]

Yeah after all, that's what it was created for.

[rosenwannabe]

There's like this huge introductory explanation of what the internet consists of and all it talks about is downloading videos... That's not even its most important use. People shop and communicate over the internet. Is that so unimportant? I had always seen the internet as a revolutionary step in distant communications.

[soilworked86]

The net is a series of tubes full of gatorbytes,

[soylentgreenb]

And how exactly is the exa flood more of a concern than the much hyped giga flood of 1996? The very same issues where raised, the very same solutions were raised.

In the end, just adding more capacity was cheaper.

[BoktaiFrog]

Clever and educational. I liked it and it's interesting to learn a little bit about the future of the internet. I guess technology really is taking over.

[Thundercross]

2) What I think they should do is do what the Japanese telcos did, and open their infrastructure to startup companies, but charge them royalties for the usage. If they stop offering service directly and only through these other companies, we'd see an environment where they can profit from upgrading infrastructure and breaches of net neutrality will most certainly result in a loss of business.