Is that a straight line calculation or did you take into account that a straight line is not the shortest path on a curved surface?
-----Original Message----- From: d...@hetzel.org on behalf of Dorn Hetzel Sent: Fri 10/1/2010 3:11 PM To: Heath Jones Cc: Rod Beck; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: A New TransAtlantic Cable System Yeah, I wonder when we're gonna see cable that's pumped down to a vacuum in the center? :) On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Heath Jones <hj1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Hibernia-Atlantic-to-bw-3184701710.html?x=0&.v=1 > > Roderick S. Beck > > Director of European Sales > > Hibernia Atlantic > > Sales spam - but still - very close to minimum possible latency! > 3471 miles @ 186,282 miles/s * 1.5 in glass * 2 round trip = 55.9ms. > >