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Very bad idea

Very bad idea

Posted Jul 27, 2009 23:16 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Very bad idea by khim
Parent article: Google releases Neatx NX server

> Speed of light is 300'000km/sec...

... in vacuum. In fiber or electrical cables, it is typical 200,000. That's 5 milliseconds per 1000km. Multiply by two to get the round trip time, and multiply once again by (typically) two to account for buffering in processing in active network nodes.


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