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one-way fiber propagation floor (SMF-28, ~4.9 µs/km); ~10 ms RTT per 1,000 km — the latency physics scale-across cannot engineer around

~5 µs/kmobserved

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As of2025
SourceM2 Optics
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Claim idone-way-fiber-propagation-floor-smf-28-4-9-s-km

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