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Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Fri Mar 23 12:03:01 2012
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:00:59 -0400
To: Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <CAO1bj=ZMk=HRYFLtrO+VMb13W4kZb508LZAyw55C8T2aS0DB-w@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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What about those -- I assume successful -- experiments to fire
neutrinos straight through the earth as a communications medium?
Not sure what the bandwidth of a neutrino stream is.
On March 23, 2012 at 12:31 aledm@qix.co.uk (Aled Morris) wrote:
> On 23 March 2012 11:53, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
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> > 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:
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> 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.
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> Aled
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