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RE: 60 ms cross-continent
From: <adamv0025 () netconsultings com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:20:10 +0100
Stephen Satchell via NANOG Sent: Monday, June 22, 2020 8:37 PM On 6/22/20 12:59 AM, adamv0025 () netconsultings com wrote:William Herrin Howdy, Why is latency between the east and west coasts so bad? Speed of light accounts for about 15ms each direction for a 30ms round trip. Where does the other 30ms come from and why haven't we gotten rid ofit?Wallstreet did :) https://www.wired.com/2012/08/ff_wallstreet_trading/“Of course, you’d need a particle accelerator to make it work.” So THAT'S why CERN wants to build an even bigger accelerator than the LHC!
Yep, why to go around the planet chasing a perfect geodesic with as few relay towers or drones if you can go through (shortest distance is always a straight line as opposed to an arc). While maintaining the speed of light in vacuum since neutrinos don't seem interact with regular matter, that's why they are so darn hard to detect. All you need is an extremely powerful neutrino detector to get you above the 51:49 success ratio. (49% packet loss is not what we're accustomed to, but for these guys it's low enough to start making money). It's quite a fascinating networking world these guys live in, working for a HFT company would be my dream job, always pushing the envelope, racing to the bottom, it's like F1 of the networking world just without the safety and fairness BS to slow you down. adam
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- Re: 60 ms cross-continent Carsten Bormann (Jun 20)
- Re: 60 ms cross-continent Marshall Eubanks (Jun 20)
- Re: 60 ms cross-continent Rubens Kuhl (Jun 21)
- Re: 60 ms cross-continent Brett Frankenberger (Jun 21)
- Re: 60 ms cross-continent Alejandro Acosta (Jun 21)
- Re: 60 ms cross-continent Rubens Kuhl (Jun 21)
- Re: 60 ms cross-continent Eric Kuhnke (Jun 21)
- Re: 60 ms cross-continent Carsten Bormann (Jun 20)
- Re: 60 ms cross-continent Stephen Satchell via NANOG (Jun 22)
- Re: 60 ms cross-continent Rod Beck (Jun 22)
- RE: 60 ms cross-continent adamv0025 (Jun 23)
- Re: 60 ms cross-continent Rod Beck (Jun 23)