[tgtweak]

No mention of latency improvements?

Seems crazy since oversea transit (tcp & single-channel) is usually latency (or loss) bound.

I would expect it's better than going over public transit and legacy subsea fiber, but it would have been useful to see some comparison tests between POPs.

[virtuallynathan]

Google invests a lot in TCP congestion control, mainly through BBR. I believe they do bulk transfers with centrally-scheduled fixed-rate UDP transmission. I also assume they have better control of buffers, loss, and queueing algo’s to prevent/control loss/drops.

[trollied]

I'm not sure how easy it is to increase the speed of light in glass without some sort of new breakthrough.

[tgtweak]

Not travelling through 20 routers in the process tends to help. Again it would be good to get a tangible idea of how much better this is vs just stating the obvious about peak theoretical throughput.