The Internet mammoth is up at it again. Google is going to use Stanford’s campus to trial their fiber optic Internet service before going for the mass public. This is a follow up to the earlier news that Google is planning to rollout 1Gbps fiber connection to between 50,000 and 500,000 homes in a given community. Looks like they’ve finalized their hardware and is ready to give it a try. Lucky Stanford students.

The university’s Residential Subdivision — a group of approximately 850 faculty- and staff-owned homes on campus — will be the testing grounds for the aforesaid internet service, and the current plan is to break ground on the initiative in early 2011. El Goog chose Stanford for a couple of reasons: first, it’s bright enough to realize how awesome of a PR move this is, and second, this chunk of campus is spitting distance from Mountain View. Would be a breeze to handle. I’m curious how this will fare for Google as an ISP (Internet Service Provider). Thus far worldwide ISP companies have their fair share of customer service complains.

SOURCE via Google