Re:How “latency numbers everybody should know” decreased fro...
by ksec on Friday March 04, 2022 @01:48AM
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And Speed of light within Glass. We could still get that 1/3 back when we could somehow make ultra long distance hollow cable. We could get that Packet round trip from 150ms to 100ms.
But I dont think hollow cable are anywhere close to commercial launch.
Re:How “latency numbers everybody should know” decreased fro...
by twicetwice on Friday March 04, 2022 @02:37AM
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Starlink will get us there for at least long-distance connections once they have the laser inter-sat links fully connected.
Re:How “latency numbers everybody should know” decreased fro...
by hvidgaard on Friday March 04, 2022 @04:50AM
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At that level of optimization, the problem is not isolated. With Starlink the gain by using lasers is potentially lost with the additional processing that needs to happen when bouncing over multiple satellites.
Re:How “latency numbers everybody should know” decreased fro...
by thfuran on Thursday March 03, 2022 @05:21PM
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Which latency are you suggesting is limited by the speed of light?
Re:How “latency numbers everybody should know” decreased fro...
by not2b on Thursday March 03, 2022 @05:41PM
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It wasn't the speed of light, it was the size of atoms that was the issue here. As old-style scaling (the kind used up until about 2003) continued, leakage power was increasing rapidly because charge carriers (electrons / holes) would tunnel through gates (I'm simplifying a bit here, other bad effects were also a factor). It was no longer possible to keep increasing clock frequency while scaling down feature size. Further reduction without exploding the power requirement meant that the clock frequency had to be left the same and transistors needed to change shape.
Re:How “latency numbers everybody should know” decreased fro...
by nightpool on Thursday March 03, 2022 @06:04PM
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"Packet roundtrip CA to Netherlands"
Re:How “latency numbers everybody should know” decreased fro...
by thfuran on Thursday March 03, 2022 @07:32PM
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No, at the speed of light 150 ms is about long enough to send a packet from SF to Amsterdam and then send the reply back the long way around the entire rest of the planet.
(well, speed of signal on a PCB track is roughly 2/3 light and determined by the transmission line geometry and the dielectric constant, but you all knew that)