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The Network Revolution Needed For Remote Surgery (thestack.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the from-the-comfort-of-your-own-home dept.

An anonymous reader writes: IEEE researchers are proposing new standards for haptic codecs over software-defined 5G networks in order to achieve the ambitious 1ms latency and reliability required for the 'tactile internet'. It's a trivial consideration when hugging chickens over a network, more serious for applications of telesurgery, and a proposed leap in network quality that seems likely to yield benefits for general data streams as well.

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  1. 1 ms ping time by wendyo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1 ms of ping time at the speed of light only gives you at best 150 km.

    1. Re:1 ms ping time by JoeMerchant · · Score: 4, Informative

      the speed of light = 299 792 458 m / s

      Or, 299.792458 km / ms

      Well done, sir - round trip time of 1ms happens at 93.14 miles, or less in slower medium (~60 miles in glass). For example, for visible light the refractive index of glass is typically around 1.5, meaning that light in glass travels at c / 1.5 200000 km/s; the refractive index of air for visible light is about 1.0003, so the speed of light in air is about 299700 km/s (about 90 km/s slower than c). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. "Telesurgery" and "5G networks" by dohzer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Telesurgery" and "5G networks" should never be mentioned in the same story.