I can't find the direct quote. I can find the mission statement that is directly related to it: http://www.google.com/fiber/kansascity/about.html
But a project manager invovled with the Google Fiber Project (Gigabit access to the home in Kansas City) had a quote along the lines of: When everyone had a modem, and only accessed email and basic webpages, nobody could imagine downloading a movie, and video conferencing (Skyping). Now this is commonplace. We don't know what people will do with larger bandwidth, because it's never been available. I think of this quote every time someone start talking about connection speeds (Be it Wireless, Wired, and Consumer Connections) Mike On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Hector J Rios <[email protected]> wrote: > You got it right Lee. The higher speeds will not necessarily be of use > for us in the higher ed sector (yet... you never know), although it will be > nice to simply have the capability in those special cases where they could > be used. For now the one advantage that Gigabit Wi-Fi will provide will be > improved HD video streaming. Again, you could see this mainly as a > consumer-oriented advantage rather than an enterprise. But we are seeing > more and more devices with wireless network capabilities these days. I > think these new standards will be the answer to the growth of all these > upcoming WiFi-enabled devices.**** > > ** ** > > Hector Rios**** > > Louisiana State University**** > > **** > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
