[151538] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Fri Mar 23 20:33:25 2012
From: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
To: Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:32:37 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAO1bj=ZMk=HRYFLtrO+VMb13W4kZb508LZAyw55C8T2aS0DB-w@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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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.
>=20
> Aled
I suggested this once when it was decided that the latency from California =
to the UK was too high and that I should reduce it. The company wouldn't g=
o for it, though.
G
