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Thread: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Toyko latency by 60ms

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    Default $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Toyko latency by 60ms

    Starting this summer, a convoy of ice breakers and specially-adapted polar ice-rated cable laying ships will begin to lay the first ever trans-Arctic Ocean submarine fiber optic cables. Two of these cables, called Artic Fibre and Arctic Link, will cross the Northwest Passage which runs through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. A third cable, the Russian Optical Trans-Arctic Submarine Cable System (ROTACS), will skirt the north coast of Scandinavia and Russia. All three cables will connect the United Kingdom to Japan, with a smattering of branches that will provide high-speed internet access to a handful of Arctic Circle communities. The completed cables are estimated to cost between $600 million and $1.5 billion each.

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    To me - this just mean i can probably finally play Call of Duty with my friends in Japan
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    On your COD point, I never had much issues playing with people in Japan. My issues actually came when playing with people in Europe *shrug*
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    This cable will not improve the route from Jamaica to Japan.

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    isn't our route still though the Caribbean to America i remembered hearing something about panama ?
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    Lets hope the cable doesnt run hot and break off a huge chunk of the north pole sea ice

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