Although it is a long-term project, it is already halfway through. After five years, you would expect to see some tangible test results or even some operational results. Wright refers to the successful result of IOWN members NTT and ChungHwa Telecom at the end of last year. They activated the first international IOWN APN gateway via an all-photonics network connection between Musashino and Taipei. The latency between these two points was very low, and the connection was stable, with only 17 milliseconds over 3,000 kilometers. Although it is one-way traffic, this is an unprecedented speed.
So a 34 ping over 3K KM. That would roughly mean any two locations in Europe would be at most under 50 ping. That’s pretty good.
Seems that <50ms is already possible, based on this site: https://wondernetwork.com/pings/London/Kharkiv (chose those as my limited geography knowledge puts them pretty far apart). Would be interesting to know if this new tech scales nicely with number of hops?
Surprised it’s a mere 40 ping from Kharkiv to London. I play with UK from Kyiv (so a few hundred km closer to London relative to Kharkiv) and I usually get closer to 50-60 ping. Might be a game-specific thing though.
A decrease from 40 to 30 ping for Kharkiv to London is a notable improvement in percentage terms (and with global latency every little bit counts).
Probably very routing dependant. I used to play a game with a friend one suburb over. His packets got routed through another state…
If it scales well, and the 25% ping reduction pans out in practice, this could be really good. Will have to wait and see.
