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Your "Round" product claims "<100ms latency from San Francisco to Tokyo." Given that even fast connections between SF and Tokyo average around 110ms (1), is <
by strix_varius 5y ago
Your "Round" product claims "<100ms latency from San Francisco to Tokyo."
Given that even fast connections between SF and Tokyo average around 110ms (1), is < 100ms an arbitrary goal that has been pulled out of thin air, or are you deploying new technology that's faster than a typical fiber connection?
1) https://wondernetwork.com/pings/San+Francisco/Tokyo https://wondernetwork.com/pings/San+Francisco/Tokyo
- theobr 5y agoWe're built on top of Agora at the moment. We saw some super promising numbers in the sub-100 range but I didn't thoroughly test. Their SD-RTN whitepaper(1) makes claims nowhere near that bold, so I will update accordingly 1) https://hello.agora.io/rs/096-LBH-766/images/Agora_WP_SD-RTN-Delivers-RealTime-Internet-Advantages.pdf https://hello.agora.io/rs/096-LBH-766/images/Agora_WP_SD-RTN...
- strix_varius 5y agoThanks for your detailed response!
- mohn 5y agoYour source says its numbers are "generated with the unix command line tool ping", which reports round trip time. In fiber, with light traveling at about (2/3) * c, the minimum latency from SF to Tokyo would be about 42 ms.
- strix_varius 5y agoThose are point-to-point pings between data centers. The physical fiber optic floor from SF to Tokyo is about 50ms, point-to-point, with no sub-fiber last miles, wifi access points, or delay from routers and switches. Actual user-to-user latency is much higher than that. Agora, for example, cites: > Low latency, 400ms average globally