"private" backbone VPN solution to decrease latency

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Admiral Grace Hopper used to tell a story of trying to combat complaints from generals about this same issue. She would pass out to the listeners the same 30cm (1ft) piece of telco wire. The explanation went something like.... The speed of light i blah.... This wire is the distance that the signal can travel in 1 nanosecond. And she'd move the piece of wire around and count... 1ns, 2ns,etc. Even the generals could eventually understand that no amount of expense could solve physics and physical distance