The other side effect of this is that some modern applications are significantly hindered by the speed of light. If you start to look at doing globally distrib

The other side effect of this is that some modern applications are significantly hindered by the speed of light. If you start to look at doing globally distributed storage, speed of light alone between two locations can be in the hundreds of milliseconds. I had not seen the 33% slowdown in fiber, which could make that worse. I believe for voice the human ear can't detect 20ms differences, but when you talk about video I have not seen numbers. Many HD video applications require latency under 100ms for the interaction to feel natural, and we currently lack a better solution for this. Example: HD video between Shanghai and Buenos Aires would be over 150ms in delay with just the speed of light and the fiber delay.