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How likely is it for internet latency to reduce between large distances like between continents? Is it even possible if data is transferring at light speeds through fiber? I'm just wondering if anyone knows about this would be cool to talk about.
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hi i have 4.9mb in dounroadu
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There is not a single fiber cable from a house in america to a house in europe.
The internet is designed to work through a series of routers which will route your traffic.
There is a processing at each intersection which creates a delay.
But even if there is just a single fiber from one point to another, the transfer is not with the speed of light.
In my illustration, I have illustrated a simplification of a fiber thread.
The red line represents the light.
The light will bounce against the sides of the fiber, so the light has to travel a lot farther than the length of the cable.
The current solution to this is to make thinner fibers, to eliminate this, but there is limits to everything.
As for reducing latency between continents, yes it is possible and there is people who are working on it although they do it in different ways.
One way is to add more cables.
This gives more connections and less jumps for each connection.
This cost a lot of money and maintenance becomes a bigger and bigger issue.
Another way is to use better cables.
This means you can use less cables while still grow the capacity.
The third way is to optimize the traffic.
Large companies like google builds servers on multiple continents in order to reduce the latency from any position.
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