Re:The 64 Milliseconds Manifesto
by Dylan16807 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @08:01PM
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> Did you look at Africa?
Yeah, I looked at it. There are datacenters within 2000km of everywhere, and that's including the Sahara. About 1500km outside of the Sahara.
1500km as the crow flies, so let's say 2400km of fiber. At the speed of light in fiber, that's 11.5 milliseconds. Double it, add time for ten routers, that's 27 milliseconds to go from any ISP line to a Cloudflare data center.
Sounds good to me. If there are infrastructure problems that's a separate issue from whether Cloudflare has enough POPs.
This is a really good example. Did you look at Africa? For the record, 1.2 billion people live there nowadays ;)
> Out of curiosity, what is the significance of "<<" and ">>"
Oh, you mean '«' and '»'? They are French quotation marks[1], I try to use the English ones '“' and '”' when I'm writing English, but sometimes I forget. Same for the space before the question and exclamation mark (there is a space in French, but not in English).
[1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet