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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: joelja at bogus.com (Joel jaeggli)
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:00:13 +0100
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On 3/24/12 01:32 , George Bonser wrote:
>> 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.

Current record depth of a borehole is under 12,500 meters which is a bit
short of the goal.

>> 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.

Bandwidth delay product has undone many a well laid plan.

> G
> 
> 
>

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