Glass or microwave

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Two 1,200 km paths send one 64-byte message at 100 Gbit/s. One uses glass fiber, the other microwaves through air. How many ms does microwave save one way? Ignore tower costs.

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Answer with one number in ms.

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p99 latency
under 8 ms
Monthly cost
under 100,000 USD/mo

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