Pity we can’t ping Voyagers. S.
On Jul 19, 2024, at 19:45, joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
On 7/19/24 15:07, Sean Donelan wrote:
What is the current estimated diameter of the Internet?
Maximum (worst-case) RTT edge-to-edge?
Most public latency data is now edge-to-cloud, not edge-to-edge. Cloud engineers have done a great job, and edge-to-cloud less than 1-sec RTT.
Where have the long-slow pipes gone?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/networking/azure-network-latency?tab...
The RTT across geostationary satellites has remained stubbornly constant we just don't use them unless there's no other alternative. A colleague sent me a trace the other day while flying from hawaii to los vegas that was otherwise performant but still incurs the overhead.