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Dissecting Latency in the Internet's Fiber Infrastructure
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2018
arXiv
pre-print
The recent publication of the 'InterTubes' map of long-haul fiber-optic cables in the contiguous United States invites an exciting question: how much faster would the Internet be if routes were chosen to minimize latency? Previous measurement campaigns suggest the following rule of thumb for estimating Internet latency: multiply line-of-sight distance by 2.1, then divide by the speed of light in fiber. But a simple computation of shortest-path lengths through the conduits in the InterTubes map
arXiv:1811.10737v1
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