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Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg () pluris com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 20:05:13 -0700
Richard Irving wrote:
Light can travel around the world 8 times in 1 second. This means it can travel once around the world (full trip) in ~ 120 ms. Milliseconds, not micro....
You've got faster light than anybody else. The speed of light is about 300000 km/s _in vacuum_; that gives 134 ms arond the planet's equator.
So, why does one trip across North america take 70ms...
a) light is slower in dense media b) fibers are not laid out in straight lines (in fact, i saw a circuit going from Seattle to Vancouver via Fort Worth :) 70 ms RTT = 35 ms one way. Given that U.S. is about 50 deg. wide, it is abput 0.7ms/degree; or 250 ms around the world. Less than 2 times slower than light in vacuum.
Hint, it is not the speed of light. Time is incurred encoding, decoding, and routing.
Hint: have a look at a telco's fiber map before spreading nonsense. --vadim
Current thread:
- Re: too many routes, (continued)
- Re: too many routes Peter Lothberg (Sep 10)
- Re: too many routes Sean M. Doran (Sep 10)
- Re: too many routes Peter Lothberg (Sep 10)
- RE: too many routes Chris A. Icide (Sep 11)
- Re: too many routes Sean M. Doran (Sep 11)
- Re: too many routes Richard Irving (Sep 11)
- ATM (was Re: too many routes) Sean M. Doran (Sep 11)
- Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes) Vadim Antonov (Sep 11)
- Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes) Richard Irving (Sep 11)
- Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes) Michael Dillon (Sep 11)
- Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes) Vadim Antonov (Sep 11)
- Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes) Geoff Huston (Sep 14)
- Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes) Susan R. Harris (Sep 15)
- Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes) Ken Hays (Sep 15)
- Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes) Alec H. Peterson (Sep 15)
- Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes) Adrian Bool (Sep 15)
- Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes) Greg Shepherd (Sep 15)
- Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes) Rob Barron (Sep 15)
- Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes) Mark Kent (Sep 15)
- NANOG-PHYSICS (was Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes)) John A. Tamplin (Sep 15)
- Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes) Rob Barron (Sep 15)
- Re: too many routes Sean M. Doran (Sep 11)
- Re: too many routes Peter Lothberg (Sep 10)