A New TransAtlantic Cable System

Rod Beck Rod.Beck at hiberniaatlantic.com
Sat Oct 2 09:52:40 UTC 2010


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: dorn at hetzel.org on behalf of Dorn Hetzel
Sent: Fri 10/1/2010 3:11 PM
To: Heath Jones
Cc: Rod Beck; nanog at 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 <hj1980 at 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.
>
>




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