A New TransAtlantic Cable System

Sat Oct 2 10:17:04 UTC 2010

On 2 October 2010 10:52, Rod Beck <Rod.Beck at hiberniaatlantic.com> wrote:
> 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?

Well that is pretty obvious to most, but no - I didn't go to the
effort of factoring in curvature of the earth - especially given that
1.5 is very rough figure anyway for RI of glass. If anything, my
comment was compliment to your network being close to minimum possible
latency!