On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Vitkovsky, Adam <avitkov...@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:al...@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 <eu...@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 >
