I mean- sure? But that's also true of terrestrial internet. It's 22 hops between my laptop and www.google.com, and it pings at 5-10ms. Certainly Starlink isn't do any fancy routing that my internet isn't already doing?
Switches and fiber are well known proven technology. Satellite laser interlinks are R&D dreams at the moment.
There are satellite laser interlinks in orbit right now.
Sure, operated manually by a bunch of people with PhDs.
I thought the current starlink generation wasn’t using laser links yet
I believe both your comment and the parent comment are true. Laser comm has been done at fairly high speeds (both sat to sat and sat to ground station), but it's relatively cutting edge and Starlink isn't currently doing it