[ee122] HW 2 - Question 3 General question

[vern at cs.berkeley.edu]

> The prompt says that latency is 12ms. If I remember correctly, latency
> is the delay in a network for 1 packet to get from point A to point B.

When latency is given without mention of a packet size, then it's synonymous
to proagation delay: i.e., the time it takes for a signal (which you can
think of as a single bit) to get from point A to point B.  This value is
not affected by the bandwidth of the path.

		Vern