City of Brookhaven To Get Google Fiber's Gigabit Internet Service 

 

Brookhaven, GA, Jan. 27, 2015 - Google Fiber announced today that the City of Brookhaven is one of 18 U.S. cities selected for the company's experimental fiber-optic network, which will offer gigabit Internet service with speeds up to 100 times faster than today's basic broadband. 

 

 

"I am pleased that city leadership and staff were able to rise to the opportunity presented by Google last year," said Mayor J. Max Davis. "They asked us to meet specific deadlines for information gathering and permitting. We met that challenge and now the City of Brookhaven is one of the select few municipalities chosen to implement this leading edge Internet and television service."

 

Google Fiber worked closely with Brookhaven over the past year in a joint planning process to get the community ready. The next step is creating a detailed map of where to put the thousands of miles of fiber using existing infrastructure (light poles, underground conduits).  Once a joint team of surveyors and engineers designs the network (to be completed sometime mid-2015), construction will start.

 

Google explained in a statement why Brookhaven and the other 17 cities across four metropolitan areas (Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham) were selected.

 

"These cities are led by people who have been working hard to bring faster Internet speeds and the latest technologies to their residents. We believe these are communities who will do amazing things with a gig. And they are diverse - not just geographically, but in the ways they'll give us opportunities to learn about the wide range of challenges and obstacles that communities might face in trying to build a new fiber network."

 

Read more about Google Fiber. 

 

  

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