14 DAY TRIAL // Everybody knows that the Internet has reached epic proportions, the huge number of web pages indexed by the search engines being the living proof of this truth. Obviously, Google is also aware of this increase.
And what better way to ensure your supremacy in the business than to build your own Internet network, which you can control as you please.
According to Times Online, which quotes sources who are in commercial negotiations with the Mountain View company, Google is working on a project whose purpose is to build a private Internet protocol network.
This network would be created in the US with the help of thousands of kilometers of optic fiber left unused after the late '90s boom. This fiber, which stretches over vast surfaces in the United States, is called "dark fiber". It's easy to imagine what would happen if a company, let's call it Google, connected all this optic fiber and created a network.
But that's not all. Times Online also cites an article written by Robert Cringely: "Google hired a pair of very bright industrial designers to figure out how to cram the greatest number of CPUs, the most storage, memory and power support into a 20- or 40-foot (6 or 12 meters) box." Mr. Cringely says that these boxes will allegedly house 5,000 Opteron processors and 3.5 Petabytes of storage and that they will be placed in the nodes of the Google network.
The information about Google's Internet is a perfect match for the rumors on the $100 computers which would have to be connected to the new network in order to be used.
If Google succeeds to obtain such a network, even if it's only in the US, it's unlikely that there will be a single company able to resist the magnetic force coming from Mountain View.