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A dedicated satellite link cross pacific is not that much money. Then again maybe the CFO didn't know so he took the easiest known option.


I've always been fond of container ships loaded up with entangled qbits. Much lower latency!


If you don't quite believe it, it's almost certainly less per annum then 2 months of a typical mid-level SRE's loaded cost, even in 2016. Bandwidth would have been not great, way under a gigabit, but it wouldn't matter in this case.




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