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All Radio Waves - The Smallest Move to Be Faster Than Others
In the year 2000, companies would start first getting as close as possible to exchanges. And then they started to ask for dark fiber, which was a way for them to connect directly from one point to another with a minimal distance in terms of a fiber circuit between two points. So it was a straight fiber to when, like, for example, three milliseconds between Chicago and New York. Some guys came in with a very small idea of using all radio waves towers to actually leverage the density of air that is lower than the density of glass so that the speed of light in the air is 40% better and faster. They could win another three milliseconds so that the trenches were no longer the best thing
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