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

Fri Mar 23 20:16:59 UTC 2012

The physics is not conducive to improving the situation a lot.

There's probably $1.5 billion in the ground already in neutrino
detectors; the total combined detector bit rate is pretty poor.  One
experiment looking at neutrinos coming off the Fermilab accelerator
had 473 million accelerator pulses with under 1.1 million detected
neutrinos.

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Marshall Eubanks
<marshall.eubanks at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Vitkovsky, Adam
> <avitkovsky at emea.att.com> wrote:
>> That is why there's this neutrinos project
>> It's not faster than the speed of light though it can shoot through the Earth and no cables cost involved
>>
>> So far the speed is 0.1 bit per sec
>>
>
> I bet for $ 1.5 billion neutrino communication (anywhere on Earth) to
> its antipode in about 40 msec one way) could be
> developed (i.e., the bit rate improved), and I could see some real
> market advantages to anyone who had access to it, even
> at 100 kbps type bit rates.
>
> Given that, I wouldn't be too surprised to see some physicists and
> networking people quietly being hired away by an
> obscure new venture...
>
> Regards
> Marshall
>
>> Can't wait for the neutrino SFPs :)
>>
>> adam
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Aled Morris [mailto:aledm at qix.co.uk]
>> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 1:31 PM
>> To: Eugen Leitl
>> Cc: NANOG list
>> Subject: Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms
>>
>> 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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