Fergie's Tech Blog

GoogleNet Update

John Paczkowski writes in Good Morning, Silicon Valley:

”This is huge. It’s scary. They’re not fooling around.”

-- Hunter Newby, chief strategy officer with carrier connection specialist Telx, on Google's telecom aspirations.


What does Google want with 270,000 square feet of space at the largest carrier hotel in Manhattan? If I were a betting man, I'd say the company's building its own core network and needs that kind of space to house the critical technology infrastructure for it. And according to multiple sources at carriers and equipment vendors, I'd be right. Light Reading reports Google has been leasing hundreds of thousands of square feet of carrier hotel space, buying up dark fiber, and mulling the purchase of DWDM and Ethernet-based telecom equipment that could total in the hundreds of millions of dollars. ”My understanding is they want to do remote peering and transit bypass,” Bill St. Arnaud, senior director of advanced networks at Canarie Inc. told Light Reading. “By building their own distribution network they don’t have to pay peering costs. Remote peering and transit costs are significant for all the big Internet players. So everybody is thinking of doing this.”

posted by Fergie @ 9/23/2005 06:32:00 AM