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Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes)

  • From: Vadim Antonov
  • Date: Fri Sep 12 00:32:24 1997 
Quote from Jim Steinhardt's <[email protected]>
personal message:

>>a) light is slower in dense media

>   The index of refraction of glass is 1.5 vs 1.0 for
>  a vacuum.  Hence, the speed of light in glass is 2 * 10 **8 m/s.

That gives 60 ms RTT on 4000 mile line.

Case closed.

Thanks, Jim!

--vadim