Reston is among聽12聽test markets nationwide selected by Google to test its new high-speed wireless broadband.
Google recently to test聽a new product, Google Fiber, in the locations for a period of two years.
Reston will join聽California locales聽Atwater, Mountain聽View,聽Palo Alto, San Bruno, San Francisco and San Jose, as well as聽Boulder, Colorado, Kansas City, Missouri; Omaha, Nebraska.; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Provo, Utah, the filing said.
The company chose those聽cities for their 鈥渞adio propagation environment, buildings and foliage to test interference, pre-existing Google infrastructure and 鈥渆xistence of partners who may participate in the tests,鈥� according to the filing and reported by .
Says Engadget:
In telecommunications development, one of the biggest bottlenecks is often the 鈥渓ast mile,鈥� or the piece of a network required to deliver service to a consumer or business. In fiber optic deployments, like Google Fiber, that often involves laying additional cables to connect homes or offices to the network.
Google Fiber is likely to cause competitors like Verizon and Comcast to up their game, tech analysts say.
Google notes in the filing that these tests won鈥檛 involve the average user. Only Google employees, contractors and 鈥渢rusted testers鈥� under close supervision will get to try out the wireless fiber.
Read more about the high-speed fiber in this .
