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Re: 60 ms cross-continent


From: Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2020 20:56:59 +0300

On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 20:52, Wayne Bouchard <web () typo org> wrote:

And thus far, no one has mentioned switching speed and other
electronic overhead such as the transceivers (that's the big one,
IIRC.)

This will be something from tens of meters (low lat swich), to few
hundred meters (typical pipeline),  to 2km delay (NPU+FAB+NPU) per
active IP device. If that is a big one, I guess it depends, cross
atlantic, no, inside rack, maybe.

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  ++ytti


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