[12310] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Fri Sep 12 00:32:25 1997
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:28:00 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>
CC: rirving@onecall.net, nanog@merit.edu
Quote from Jim Steinhardt's <jsteinha@cisco.com>
personal message:
>>a) light is slower in dense media
> The index of refraction of glass is 1.5 vs 1.0 for
> a vacuum. Hence, the speed of light in glass is 2 * 10 **8 m/s.
That gives 60 ms RTT on 4000 mile line.
Case closed.
Thanks, Jim!
--vadim
