[93590] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: U.S./Europe connectivity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Temkin)
Wed Dec 6 07:29:56 2006
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 04:18:48 -0800
In-Reply-To: <86zma1gsqt.fsf@seastrom.com>
From: "David Temkin" <dave@rightmedia.com>
To: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Have you ever had to use Radianz' service? :-)
(disclaimer: it's far, far better nowadays)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On=20
> Behalf Of Robert E. Seastrom
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 6:38 AM
> To: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: U.S./Europe connectivity
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> Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com writes:
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> > BTW, the speed of light in fibre is roughly equal to the speed of=20
> > electrons in copper and roughly equal to two-thirds the=20
> speed of light=20
> > in a vacuum. You just can't move information faster than=20
> about 200,000=20
> > km/hr.
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> Slow day at work, Michael? In my universe light in glass=20
> moves about 3600 times as fast. :-)
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> ---Rob
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