[151505] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aled Morris)
Fri Mar 23 08:34:30 2012
In-Reply-To: <20120323115345.GF9891@leitl.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:31:13 +0000
From: Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk>
To: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 23 March 2012 11:53, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
> All three cables are being laid for the same reasons: Redundancy and speed.
> As it stands, it takes roughly 230 milliseconds for a packet to go from
> London to Tokyo; the new cables will reduce this by 30% to 170ms. This
> speed-up will be gained by virtue of a much shorter run:
If they could armor the cable sufficiently perhaps they could drill the
straigh line path through the Earth's crust (mantle and outer core) and do
London-Tokyo in less than 10,000km.
Aled
