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by ksec 3075 days ago
Very Naive Questions.

There are now fibre that has hollow core instead of light travelling through glass. Assuming we could do that in long distance, that is close to 0.98c, we should have +40% latency improvement right?

i.e Someday if we needed more capacity and this tech is available, we could lay this new fibre along side the same router as the current fibre. And enjoy some improved latency?

How much latency does each network hoop adds? 0.05ms?

How much latency does our own machine add? Are the 70ms actually all spent within the Network? Or would there be 0.5ms just coming from the Ethernet Controller, buffer or what ever?