Mission Creek

 from eweek.com

I still think this is one of the most interesting insights into what Google may be up to….

The market is still guessing about Google’s continued purchases of “dark fiber” and what that will mean to the Internet. Yet another explanation was floated at a recent IT conference: IPv6, the next-generation Internet standard….

“You know who else has a big pot of slash 20? Google,” Lightman said. “Yahoo does too. It’s not that service providers aren’t doing it—it’s the savvy service providers, with the high multiples and visionary management, that are getting ready to go into it.

“This is why Google bought mobile dark fiber. It’s to go out and go: ‘All these bozos in America aren’t rolling out IPv6, so we’ll do it if they aren’t going to….

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