The number for the fiber is accurate.
However, fiber isn't laid straight path. I add at least 40% as a
precaution, as if laid on the sides of a square, where the original path
is the diagonal. This is however a very conservative measure to real world.
However, equipment delays can be much larger, and if you now have
buffers they can cause much much higher delays. How well the network is
managed controls the additional delay and it's variations.
You milage may vary, indeed.
These are among the things I need to know after half a bottle of wine.
Cheers,
Magnus
On 01/02/2017 05:58 PM, Mark Spencer wrote:
In my prior experience (from approx 5 to 20 years ago) actual wide area net
work links delivered over fiber from commercial providers could have latencies
of at least several times those figures. I seem to recall efforts were made
to lower latencies for applications such as stock trading but I never had any
exposure to those connections.
Best regards
Mark Spencer
How can they get a delay that long? Satellite link?
Fiber is 5 microseconds per km. So 1000 km is 5 ms.
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