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Re: A New TransAtlantic Cable System

  • From: Heath Jones
  • Date: Sat Oct 02 06:17:15 2010

On 2 October 2010 10:52, Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@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!





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