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Speed of light In a Vacuum In Fiber

0.67 <-- Fraction of speed of light in a vacuum for fiber optics


299,792,458 200860946.86 200860.9
meters/second meters/second km/sec

Given distance in kilometers, calculate expected latency:


Distance (km) 100 500 0.6214 <-- Conversion factor, kilometers to miles
Latency (ms) 0.4978568585 2.48928429252
Round-trip (ms) 0.99571371701 4.97856858505

Given distance in miles, calculate expected latency:


Distance (Miles) 100 500
Distance (km) 160.92693917 804.634695848
Latency (ms) 0.80118580384 4.00592901919
Round-trip (ms) 1.60237160768 8.01185803838

Given measured round-trip latency, calculate estimated circuit path length:


Round-trip Latency (milliseconds) 1 5
Approx. Distance (km) 100.43047343 502.1524
Approx. Distance (miles) 62.4074961894 312.0375

Convert distance from Miles to Kilometers


Distance (Miles) 100 500
Distance (km) 160.92693917 804.634695848

Convert distance from Kilometers to Miles


Distance (km) 100 500
Distance (Miles) 62.14 310.7
, kilometers to miles

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