A New TransAtlantic Cable System

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Fri Oct 1 14:08:50 UTC 2010


On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:01:25 BST, Heath Jones said:
> > http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Hibernia-Atlantic-to-bw-3184701710.html?x=0&.v=1

> 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.

My first thought is that they've found a way to cheat on the 1.5. If you can
make it work at 1.4, you get down to 52.2ms - but get it *too* low and all
your photons leak out the sides.  Hmm.. Unless you have a magic core that
runs at 1.1 and a *cladding* that's up around 2.0?

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