[AusNOG] Amazon: And the winner is (not) Sydney

[John Edwards]

On 03/03/2011, at 3:38 PM, Damien Morris wrote:

>> 
>> Theres your 1ms.
>> 
> 
> I've not seen any DeLoreans parked down there but I was suspecting they'd managed to harness quantum entanglement to get that faster-than-light roundtrip.
> 
> Not sharing the the technology with the rest of us though, typical.
> 


I once hired a programmer with a masters degree in Astrophysics, who ruined my personal vision of quantum entanglement by explaining how it is useless for faster-than-light communications. Good luck with your own vision.

That's not to say that there isn't room for improvement - internal reflection in singlemode fibre ensures that we're not likely to see signals propagate faster than 60% of the speed of light. Copper wires are good for 80%, so maybe there's an opportunity to resurrect some old cable system and policy-route ICMP across it for laughs.

With the right advances in technology and magma-resistent fibre, you could possibly bore under the pacific direct from Sydney to San Francisco, and shave another 25% off your ping time by not following the curvature of the sea floor - all though I'm not sure how local councils go with permits to penetrate the Earth's mantle. Tesla may have figured out a way to do this wirelessly, but he never got the chance to prove it.

John

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