Google Fiber and M-Lab:Two Projects for the Future of Broadband

Jae-Hoon ChungSenior Policy CounselGoogle Korea LLC.June 24, 2011

Known: faster, universal, affordable open broadband Internet access is essential

Known: some pieces of the puzzle

Unknown: a lot

Understanding Broadband

Google’s Fiber for Communities Project

Building the Future

Why Is Google Doing This?

o Google’s goal is to move the web forward by offering Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what people have access to today.

o In 2011 we announced Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri as our first communities, and we'll be looking closely at ways to bring ultra high-speeds to other cities in the future.

o Just as the move from dial-up to broadband led to new and unpredictable innovations, we believe ultra high-speed bandwidth will push the web to even greater heights.

• An open, distributed platform for Internet measurement tools

• A server platform for researchers to deploy broadband measurement tools

• Users run tests, get data about their own connection, and provide data back to researchers

• Open platform, open tools, open data• http://www.measurementlab.net/

Researchers

M-Lab: A Collaboration

Launched: January 20096 Tools on 48 servers across 16 sites in US, EU, AU50 million tests run, nearly 300 TB of data

M-Lab at a Glance

FCC releases "consumer broadband test" powered by NDT on M-Lab, and Ookla (speedtest.net) on March 11, 2010

FCC published initial results one week later at broadband.gov

M-Lab and the FCC’s Consumer Broadband Test

What a User Sees – FCC test

…and more

What a Researcher Sees