$1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

Barry Shein bzs at world.std.com
Fri Mar 23 16:00:59 UTC 2012


What about those -- I assume successful -- experiments to fire
neutrinos straight through the earth as a communications medium?

Not sure what the bandwidth of a neutrino stream is.


On March 23, 2012 at 12:31 aledm at qix.co.uk (Aled Morris) wrote:
 > On 23 March 2012 11:53, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
 > 
 > > All three cables are being laid for the same reasons: Redundancy and speed.
 > > As it stands, it takes roughly 230 milliseconds for a packet to go from
 > > London to Tokyo; the new cables will reduce this by 30% to 170ms. This
 > > speed-up will be gained by virtue of a much shorter run:
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > If they could armor the cable sufficiently perhaps they could drill the
 > straigh line path through the Earth's crust (mantle and outer core) and do
 > London-Tokyo in less than 10,000km.
 > 
 > Aled

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