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RE: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vitkovsky, Adam)
Fri Mar 23 08:57:55 2012
From: "Vitkovsky, Adam" <avitkovsky@emea.att.com>
To: Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk>, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:53:02 +0100
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That is why there's this neutrinos project
It's not faster than the speed of light though it can shoot through the Ear=
th and no cables cost involved
So far the speed is 0.1 bit per sec
Can't wait for the neutrino SFPs :)
adam
-----Original Message-----
From: Aled Morris [mailto:aledm@qix.co.uk]=20
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 1:31 PM
To: Eugen Leitl
Cc: NANOG list
Subject: Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms
On 23 March 2012 11:53, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
> All three cables are being laid for the same reasons: Redundancy and spee=
d.
> 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
