[AusNOG] Best roundtrip latency to Israel?

[Mark Andrews]

In message <AM5PR0301MB24814072C2675F44C808F43AD2FE0 at AM5PR0301MB2481.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com>, Clay Quinn writes:
>
> Hi All,
>
> An oddball question - is anyone using services over Internet to Israel
> (VPN etc), and if so what is your round-trip latency?  From a Telstra TID
> connection I'm getting around 400ms (Sydney, LA, New York, UK, France,
> Israel).  I'm curious if there's a less-latent path on another
> provider/route (RDP sessions are painfully slow).

SYD to TLV is 8813 great circle miles (14183km).  This gives a lower
bound on a terrestrial path unless you start drilling.

> Using 30,000km as an estimate for the fibre distance, that gives a
> theoretical minimum latency of 300ms (0.5us/km * 30,000km * both
> directions).  So there's an additional 100ms of overhead there (OEO
> conversions probably - 30 hops in traceroute).
>
> If that's par for the course, I guess WAN acceleration is really the only
> option - I understand it's a pretty long path.  If anyone has any unique
> solutions to this problem I'd love to hear it.
>
>
> Cheers
> Clay
>
> Clay Quinn
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