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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:

> Low latency, 400ms average globally



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