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A New TransAtlantic Cable System
- Subject: A New TransAtlantic Cable System
- From: hj1980 at gmail.com (Heath Jones)
- Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:17:04 +0100
- In-reply-to: <1E8B940C5E21014AB8BE70B975D40EDB039584B8@bert.HiberniaAtlantic.local>
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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!