[155840] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Asia's Fastest Communications Cable Comes Online
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Henderson)
Fri Aug 24 23:56:34 2012
From: Ian Henderson <ianh@ianh.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <38668.1345829602@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 13:55:29 +1000
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 25/08/2012, at 3:33 AM, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> If you can use 3ms to extract enough money out of the market to pay =
for a
> cable, that market is *way* too volatile in the first place.
3ms is centuries. :)
=
http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/networking/55281-vocus-cables-sydne=
y-harbour-to-cut-latency
"Vocus Communications has laid two fibre cables across Sydney Harbour - =
to shave microseconds from the trip time from the CBD to the ASX data =
centre in Gore Hill."
"Vocus already operates a cable through the Sydney Harbour Tunnel but =
according to CEO James Spenceley the new cable is some 700 metres =
shorter and represents the lowest latency link available between the CBD =
and the ASX data centre."
Rgds,
- I.=
