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Originally Posted by KFC911

Steve ... yer on call for network problems ... I'll let Elon push the easy button for latency ...

Mebbe 12" ... that's what Dr. Wirth displayed by holding his hands apart .... methinks it was "Switching Theory 101" ... how far light travels in a nanosecond ... give or take

The devil is always in the details...

Ea$y Pea$y buttons ... prolly take a few bazillion bucks and back ordered

Yes and no. I'm a point of escalation for really big problems that the ops guys can't handle. Fortunately, those are few and far between (1-2 /yr, max). In years past, I was on call a lot more.

I actually used to work for a place whose primary business was providing voip and data over GEO satellite (primarily oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, Canada, but also Halliburton/KBR in Afganistan and Iraq. In that business the latencies were 600-800+. You had to get used to talking on the phone. We didn't say "over", but the delay was just about like that.

Now I support "Low Latency" or "High Frequency" trading. So we do deal ms, µs, and ns. We have switches that switch at layer 1 that, depending upon the configuration, have single digit nanosecond port to port latency https://www.arista.com/en/products/7130l-series.