[AusNOG] Best roundtrip latency to Israel?

Kim Pearce kim.pearce at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 14:05:29 EST 2016


And if you drill, it is a 20,000km round trip - ~(10,000km along the chord
from SYD to TLV)

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:

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> 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
> >
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