That traceroute example doesn't lie at all, just creative writing. The author conviently does not mention VPN not once. Plus, MPLS service providers have been around awhile. It's technology is well-understood.
Traceroute can missrepresent where latency is due to how it uses the TTL field, but increasing the sampling size usually averages out that issue.
Traceroute can missrepresent where latency is due to how it uses the TTL field, but increasing the sampling size usually averages out that issue.