Google the ISP with 2^96 IPv6 addresses

blogs.zdnet.com — Google has 79 billion billion billion IPv6 addresses, is buying up massive amounts of dark fiber, and building a massive data center. Just what is Google up to? Jun 28, 2006 View in Crawl 4

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funkytaco Jun 28, 2006

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Working on Internet2, obviously.

cremate Jun 28, 2006

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because we know google is trying to protect themselves... which in turn protects us because we're both fighting against net regulation laws (at least the sane ones are).if they actuallly put ALL the telcos and ISPs out of business.... well that might be bad. imagine, free google OS over a free google ISP (until they gain a monopoly) with free google software. hmmm....

ultrasoul Jun 29, 2006

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Google + Fon = Free routers and free internet from your local Google ISP?

kenshu7 Jun 29, 2006

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Google is building the Matrix ;)

chuckio Jun 29, 2006

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These IP addresses might be the cheapest artifacts ever produced. Since Google bought 10^29 of them, it doesn't really matter how much they paid. Let's just make up a crazy price - $10 trillion, which is about the size of US annual GDP. If Google paid all of that, theyd still be getting 10^16 addresses for a buck, which is 100 trillion for a penny.

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