Domestic discord has a way of tearing at a community's fiber, and our building, I learned, wasn't unique.
At the same time, he says, "We know that in our community the fiber stops right at the moment where our low-income students are living".
The core Node.js team claims that only a vocal minority of the community prefer Fibers.
But on every other measure of diversity for communities Google Fiber is either serving or plans to serve it falls flat.
Compelled by that need, state residents—including Thomae joined forces early in 2008 to form ECFiber, Vermont's first community-owned fiber-optic network.
"People who have high-speed internet access tend to forget what life was like without it," says Irv Thomae '62, PhD '68, district chair of community-owned fiber-to-home network ECFiber.
Chattanooga, Tenn .has the fastest Internet service of any city in America, via a community-owned fiber-optic network that delivers free access to every business and resident.
Wiring a community with new fiber is expensive, and what it buys you is the ability to compete against existing cable and telecom incumbents who will do everything within their power to discourage you from eating into their profits.
We wrote about the great lengths many cities and towns were taking to catch the attention of Google, in the hope that the search giant would choose their community for its fiber network.
Despite these valiant efforts, on May 17 , 2011 Google announced that Kansas City, Kansas would be the first Google Fiber community (a few days after the announcement, Google also announced that Kansas City, Missouri would also be part of this rollout).
