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Re: U.S./Europe connectivity

  • From: Alexander Harrowell
  • Date: Wed Dec 06 08:21:43 2006
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"You cannae break the laws of physics, Captain!"

Seriously, LINX is the obvious first step.

On 12/6/06, David Temkin <dave@rightmedia.com> wrote:

Have you ever had to use Radianz' service? :-)

(disclaimer:  it's far, far better nowadays)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Robert E. Seastrom
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 6:38 AM
> To: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: U.S./Europe connectivity
>
>
>
> Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com writes:
>
> > BTW, the speed of light in fibre is roughly equal to the speed of
> > electrons in copper and roughly equal to two-thirds the
> speed of light
> > in a vacuum. You just can't move information faster than
> about 200,000
> > km/hr.
>
> Slow day at work, Michael?  In my universe light in glass
> moves about 3600 times as fast.  :-)
>
>                                         ---Rob
>
>