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It's a classic example in education to demonstrate the difference between bandwidth and latency. Extremely high bandwidth, but also extremely high latency. It's not for practical use, it's a thought experiment to explain something that's often counterintuitive to students that are just starting out learning about networking.
Yeah, this is super dumb. It's too dumb for me to akchually it though.