Estimating the Cost of the Google Super-Fiber Network
Google wants to offer 1 gigabit-per-second speeds to some 50,000 to 500,000 people. At 2.6 people per household, that roughly translates to 20,000 to 200,000 homes. Our friend Ben Schachter, Internet analyst with Broadpoint AmTech, estimates that it will cost Google between $3,000 and $8,000 per home, or roughly $60 million to $1.6 billion, depending on the final size and footprint of the network. If Google reaches, say, 100,000 homes, it would cost the company about half a billion dollars.
Calix Networks has developed an equation that allows them to calculate the cost per household depending on population density (the single most important factor for per house cost of FTTH.)
This is why densely populated places like…
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