[130401] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: A New TransAtlantic Cable System
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rod Beck)
Sat Oct 2 05:54:48 2010
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 10:52:40 +0100
From: "Rod Beck" <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
To: "Dorn Hetzel" <dhetzel@gmail.com>,
"Heath Jones" <hj1980@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Is that a straight line calculation or did you take into account that=
a straight line is not the shortest path on a curved surface?
-----Original Message-----
From: dorn@hetzel.org on behalf of Dorn Hetzel
Sent: Fri 10/1/2010 3:11 PM
To: Heath Jones
Cc: Rod Beck; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: A New TransAtlantic Cable System
=20
Yeah, I wonder when we're gonna see cable that's pumped down to a vacuum=
in
the center? :)
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Heath Jones <hj1980@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Hibernia-Atlantic-to-bw-3184701710.html?=
x=3D0&.v=3D1
> > Roderick S. Beck
> > Director of European Sales
> > Hibernia Atlantic
>
> Sales spam - but still - very close to minimum possible latency!
> 3471 miles @ 186,282 miles/s * 1.5 in glass * 2 round trip =3D 55.9ms.
>
>
