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

Subject: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms
From: gbonser at seven.com (George Bonser)
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:32:37 +0000
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> 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

I suggested this once when it was decided that the latency from California to the UK was too high and that I should reduce it.  The company wouldn't go for it, though.

G

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