On 23 March 2012 13:31, Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk> wrote:
On 23 March 2012 11:53, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
All three cables are being laid for the same reasons: Redundancy and speed. As it stands, it takes roughly 230 milliseconds for a packet to go from London to Tokyo; the new cables will reduce this by 30% to 170ms. This speed-up will be gained by virtue of a much shorter run:
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 imagine a easier solution. Use a random number generator in both sides, with the same seed. Then use a slower way to send "packets re-sync" that will contain the delta from the generated number, to the real actual number. I suppose this speeds are needed for some "fast speed transaction", that are leeching money from the background noise on the market. This is not like the Roman empire, where you could make a lot of money buying wheat wen theres a dry year in egypt. note: I could be wrong. -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje.