Your "Round" product claims "<100ms latency from San Francisco to Tokyo."
Given that even fast connections between SF and Tokyo average around 110ms (1), is < 100ms an arbitrary goal that has been pulled out of thin air, or are you deploying new technology that's faster than a typical fiber connection?
We're built on top of Agora at the moment. We saw some super promising numbers in the sub-100 range but I didn't thoroughly test. Their SD-RTN whitepaper(1) makes claims nowhere near that bold, so I will update accordingly
Those are point-to-point pings between data centers.
The physical fiber optic floor from SF to Tokyo is about 50ms, point-to-point, with no sub-fiber last miles, wifi access points, or delay from routers and switches.
Actual user-to-user latency is much higher than that. Agora, for example, cites:
Given that even fast connections between SF and Tokyo average around 110ms (1), is < 100ms an arbitrary goal that has been pulled out of thin air, or are you deploying new technology that's faster than a typical fiber connection?
1) https://wondernetwork.com/pings/San+Francisco/Tokyo