[151551] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel jaeggli)
Sat Mar 24 02:01:10 2012
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:00:13 +0100
From: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
In-Reply-To: <596B74B410EE6B4CA8A30C3AF1A155EA09D4081C@RWC-MBX1.corp.seven.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 3/24/12 01:32 , George Bonser wrote:
>> 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.
Current record depth of a borehole is under 12,500 meters which is a bit
short of the goal.
>> Aled
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> 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 go for it, though.
Bandwidth delay product has undone many a well laid plan.
> G
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