Most of the time is still in the hops. Every machine along the route and transitions into fibre and electrical cables is what is adding the time. In theory we c

Most of the time is still in the hops. Every machine along the route and transitions into fibre and electrical cables is what is adding the time. In theory we can do drastically better than we do today with faster routing machines but latency hasn’t really improved very much for long connections despite all the advancements in the past 30 years.