The IOWN initiative celebrates 5 years of progress in all-photonics network technology that promises 100x higher bandwidth and 200x less energy consumption.
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).
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.