[130402] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A New TransAtlantic Cable System
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Heath Jones)
Sat Oct 2 06:17:15 2010
In-Reply-To: <1E8B940C5E21014AB8BE70B975D40EDB039584B8@bert.HiberniaAtlantic.local>
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:17:04 +0100
From: Heath Jones <hj1980@gmail.com>
To: Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2 October 2010 10:52, Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com> wrote:
> 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?
Well that is pretty obvious to most, but no - I didn't go to the
effort of factoring in curvature of the earth - especially given that
1.5 is very rough figure anyway for RI of glass. If anything, my
comment was compliment to your network being close to minimum possible
latency!
