Milo Medin on the Age of Broadband Abundance

Sun, August 19, 2012 | Posted by christopher

Milo Medin, the VP of Access Services at Google (responsible for the Kansas City deployment) gave a 40 minute presentation discussing important changes in the Internet. We should be moving from an age of scarcity to abundance, if the big cable companies will stop hindering that change. The slides from his presentation are available here.

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Milo

Submitted by Luis Escalante (not verified) on August 21, 2012 - 9:59am.

Milo is a brilliant pioneer on the Broadband industry. The Cable Companies under estimated his talent.

Netflix

Submitted by Brandon Bowersox-Johnson (not verified) on August 21, 2012 - 9:09pm.

Jump to 36:30 for a recorded message from Netflix CEO and Co-Founder Reed Hastings. He talks about the fiber-to-the-home revolution, saying:

"It's a very fundamental revolution that has only begun. When there is fiber to several million homes around the world, we will look back ... and be amazed that we all got to be part of it."

In Urbana-Champaign, Illinois we are doing our part to deploy fiber-to-the-home to 2,500 residences. Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband (UC2B) has been connecting anchor institutions and is now lighting up homes in eligible neighborhoods. Find us at www.UC2B.net, www.facebook.com/UC2Bfiber and www.twitter.com/UC2Bfiber .

Building a fiber network.

Submitted by Dan Limerick (not verified) on August 22, 2012 - 8:20am.

Since feb. 2010, we're building America's best underground network. 300 miles in, connected with Level 3 with plan to fttx the Carolinas. Great opportunity for Beta testing emerging fiber hardware technologies and systems. It's the network/technology the cable and telecommunication companies aren't addressing because of their Legacy infrastructure. As Google knows, all fiber networks will be the future, not to just supply "bundled" services but HD cameras, bookless electronic education, telemedicine and Smart Grid. And that's not the limits of fiber it's just the beginning. Much better services, less maintanence and lower consumer costs. Milo, if you're out there, let's talk, we've heard enough of the naysayers.