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Going from 60ms to 40ms for a transatlantic hop isn't quite that significant IMO. An HFT organization will simply co-locate their compute servers in the same co
by hliyan 7y ago
Going from 60ms to 40ms for a transatlantic hop isn't quite that significant IMO. An HFT organization will simply co-locate their compute servers in the same continent as the exchange. Actually, they will colocate their servers in the same geographic neighborhood, if not within the very same data center. Source: was HFT systems dev for 10 years.