Google Exploring New Cities For Google Fiber

Kelter said:
Lol.. I was about to say the same thing. Why would you exclude San Jose when it probably has the most large tech companies headquartered there? Ever drive down First St?

I do find it funny that Cupertino isn't on the list... In Silicon Valley, that is really the only other major city they missed.. oh Apple.. why can't you play nice with anyone else.. lol.
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Heh, I work on North First Street :). But to be honest with you Silicon Valley started in Palo Also at Stanford and pretty much has expanded down south over the years and now covers North San Jose. The rest of San Jose doesn't have a lot of tech companies yet they claim to be the Capitol of Silicon Valley.

I think its funny Cupertino isn't part of the Google Fiber party. I wonder if Google did that on purpose.
 
AeonF1 said:
The rest of San Jose doesn't have a lot of tech companies yet they claim to be the Capitol of Silicon Valley.

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the main reason for that claim is because its the largest city in the area.
 
Outamyhead said:
If they are installing it for free, I'm sure the land owners would go for it anyway, although they will probably be dicks about it.
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I would happily pay for the per-house cost of connection in exchange for a year or 2 worth of free service. Hell I would pay the thousands of dollars it'd take to run fiber from my house to some hub if I didn't have to pay a monthly fee, however for some reason you can't do that.
 
AeonF1 said:
Heh, I work on North First Street :). But to be honest with you Silicon Valley started in Palo Also at Stanford and pretty much has expanded down south over the years and now covers North San Jose. The rest of San Jose doesn't have a lot of tech companies yet they claim to be the Capitol of Silicon Valley.

I think its funny Cupertino isn't part of the Google Fiber party. I wonder if Google did that on purpose.
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You really have no idea what you're talking about. You probably think 101 in South San Jose is just something that goes to Gilroy.
 
I service equipment for engineering companies, and most of my coworkers around the country are racking up 40k miles a year in their car or airline and hotel points by the bucket. Half the time I'm working close enough to go home for lunch, because of how many engineering firms are in San Jose. Not Palo Alto, not Mountain View. Those cities are full of cool companies providing new ways to take and send dick pics, but most of the hardware everyone else needs is in SJ.
 
aShrubbery! said:
Yeah, instead of 75 years, you will only have to wait 50.:rolleyes:

Comcast will still be a big player in the broadband business. And Comcast has no plans to upgrade to optic fiber. AND they recently acquired Time Warner.
Chances are, things are going to stay as they are for a loooooooong time.
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I know I am being unrealistically optimistic, but one can hope :D

Though now you have made me curious about how Google Fiber has effected business for Comcast in the few cities they are currently in. If it had some dent and Google Fiber existed in all the major U.S. metro areas, I'd hope that it would actually make Comcast sweat a little bit despite recently gobbling up Time Warner...

Sigh, there goes my optimism again...
 
Aluisious said:
You really have no idea what you're talking about. You probably think 101 in South San Jose is just something that goes to Gilroy.
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I lived in the South Bay for over 30 years and my dad over 50 years (who is also an engineer) including a couple years by 101 and Capitol Expy, the southern half is where most SJ residents live, while the northern part is where most of engineering jobs reside. Home prices, direction of morning and evening traffic reflects this. The enormous area that San Jose occupies dwarfs neighboring cities but percentage wise, the more northern cities are more deeply entrenched with tech businesses. I'd say the bulk of the tech companies are along 101 from First Street in North San Jose to about where 85 connects to 101, which makes Sunnyvale the center of it all. I'd say before the 1990s, San Jose wasn't even part of Silicon Valley but a lot of engineers did live in SJ.

But I do agree SJ has more hardware and things go more Software as you go further north.
 
...the point was IBM has had a large campus in south San Jose for decades, and other large businesses like WD, Hitachi, IDT, Xilinx, also built large campuses in the area.
 
AeonF1 said:
Heh, I work on North First Street :). But to be honest with you Silicon Valley started in Palo Also at Stanford and pretty much has expanded down south over the years and now covers North San Jose. The rest of San Jose doesn't have a lot of tech companies yet they claim to be the Capitol of Silicon Valley.

I think its funny Cupertino isn't part of the Google Fiber party. I wonder if Google did that on purpose.
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False. Silicon Valley started in Mountain View with the founding of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory.
 
siliconnerd said:
False. Silicon Valley started in Mountain View with the founding of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory.
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From Wiki:
During the 1940s and 1950s, Frederick Terman, as dean of engineering and later as provost, encouraged faculty and graduates to start their own companies. He is credited with nurturing Hewlett-Packard, Varian Associates, and other high-tech firms, until what would become Silicon Valley grew up around the Stanford campus. Terman is often called "the father of Silicon Valley."[46] Terman encouraged William B. Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor, to return to his hometown of Palo Alto. In 1956 he established the Shockley Transistor Laboratory.[47]
 
Aluisious said:
...the point was IBM has had a large campus in south San Jose for decades, and other large businesses like WD, Hitachi, IDT, Xilinx, also built large campuses in the area.
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Well, sjankech spoke of headquarters. And none of the companies you listed besides Xilinx is headquartered in San Jose. But yes there are some significant campuses down there.
 
AeonF1 said:
Well, sjankech spoke of headquarters. And none of the companies you listed besides Xilinx is headquartered in San Jose. But yes there are some significant campuses down there.
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IDT is also headquartered in San Jose.
 
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