It ran half a cable length behind the Ulysses, spent itself in the empty sea beyond.
The relation between the cable length and clock frequency is shown in the following figure.
However, there is a tradeoff between number of devices on the bus and total cable length.
Repeaters can be used to further extend the cable length.
Instead the new meter allows them to read current anywhere along the cable length.
The cable length was thus set by the length of the available rope walk.
It has a total cable length of 897 km.
The importance is to minimize the cable length to avoid an communications problem on the bus.
Typically the total cable length of a channel was limited to 200 feet, less being preferred.
Another pattern had exploded, much closer this time, two cable lengths distant, at most.