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blencdr | 2 years ago

Pinging microsoft.com [20.236.44.162] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 20.236.44.162: bytes=32 time=2767923ms TTL=56

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mlindner|2 years ago

You'd want to put them in Low Earth Orbit, not Ceres. Data centers (CDNs) in space would have 10ms ping times in basically the worst case (assuming a relatively high low earth orbit of 1000 km and hitting satellites at approximately 45 degrees elevation). In the best case they'll have ping times possibly as low as 3ms (satellites that happen to be directly overhead in their 400 km orbits).

You get direct connections to the servers without going through multiple local jumps and you aren't slowed down by the slower speeds of light in fiber.

Error correction, mass limits, and power generation are the difficult parts.

creatable|2 years ago

I am very impressed by the fact that this is an actual Azure IP.

a012|2 years ago

Even if we could scale to Cosmos web services we’re still stuck with IPv4