Re:Network Latencies and Speed of Light
by microcolonel on Saturday January 20, 2018 @07:59PM
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Seems like directional radio/laser-in-tube would get you back that 1/3 by avoiding the internal reflection problem altogether.
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That's why companies doing HFT or stock exchanges often use microwave links... Just to crank it to eleven err to gain that 30% back.
Information Transmission Between Financial Markets in Chicago and New York: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.5966v1.pdf
Time is money when it comes to microwaves: https://www.ft.com/content/2bf37898-b775-11e2-841e-00144feab...
Trading Fortunes Depend on a Mysterious Antenna in an Empty Field: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-12/mysteriou...
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/priva...