The issue with latency for the most part is not network technology, its physics. While there are many techniques to improve performance over high latency links, for the most part latency is what is is going to be, until we figure out how to get electrons to move faster then the speed of light. And if you try and calculate the amount of time it would take from, say, the US to the UK and back (remember latency is calculated as RTT), don't forget that you have to take into account that C refers to the theoretical speed of light in a vacuum, not the actual speed you will see across a piece of intercontinental glass.
O'Reilly said this, and it really makes sense if you want to see who the terrorists are in this matter...
"If you disarm Hezbolla today, the violence ends today......if you diarm Israel today, Israel ends today/there will be another Holocaust"
QED.
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Acctually, SCO did not get hold of Caldera, Caldera got it's hands on SCO... It went like this
(a long long time ago in a land far far away...)
A company called The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) had a product called SCO Unix, and owned many of the original copyrights on UNIX from the AT&T System V days (how they got there is not important). The market for their product was not wonderful, so they created a product called Tarantella http://www.tarantella.com/ and decided to sell the UNIX part of the business. With that went the SCO name, and the old Santa Cruz Operation was forever to be called Tarantella... that is, untill they were purchased by old UNIX buddy Sun Microsystems...
The company that bought the UNIX stuff (and the SCO name) was a little Linux outfit called Caldera... which is now called... SCO
so the irony here is that a company that got it's start packaging and selling Linux buys the UNIX copyrights and uses them to threaten former competiters in the Linux space...
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The issue with latency for the most part is not network technology, its physics. While there are many techniques to improve performance over high latency links, for the most part latency is what is is going to be, until we figure out how to get electrons to move faster then the speed of light. And if you try and calculate the amount of time it would take from, say, the US to the UK and back (remember latency is calculated as RTT), don't forget that you have to take into account that C refers to the theoretical speed of light in a vacuum, not the actual speed you will see across a piece of intercontinental glass.
O'Reilly said this, and it really makes sense if you want to see who the terrorists are in this matter...
...if you diarm Israel today, Israel ends today/there will be another Holocaust"
"If you disarm Hezbolla today, the violence ends today...
QED.
(a long long time ago in a land far far away...)
A company called The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) had a product called SCO Unix, and owned many of the original copyrights on UNIX from the AT&T System V days (how they got there is not important). The market for their product was not wonderful, so they created a product called Tarantella http://www.tarantella.com/ and decided to sell the UNIX part of the business. With that went the SCO name, and the old Santa Cruz Operation was forever to be called Tarantella... that is, untill they were purchased by old UNIX buddy Sun Microsystems...
The company that bought the UNIX stuff (and the SCO name) was a little Linux outfit called Caldera... which is now called... SCO
so the irony here is that a company that got it's start packaging and selling Linux buys the UNIX copyrights and uses them to threaten former competiters in the Linux space...
sad really, if you ask me (not that you did)