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Perhaps apocryphal/silly, but amusing nonetheless. Story goes that this means you want to be in the computer furthest from the interconnect because light travel
by Misdicorl 4y ago
Perhaps apocryphal/silly, but amusing nonetheless. Story goes that this means you want to be in the computer furthest from the interconnect because light travels slightly faster in straight fiber than in coiled fiber.
- colejohnson66 4y agoNot apocryphal; IEX has 38 miles of wire in their building. Tom Scott did a video a few years ago about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8BcCLLX4N4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8BcCLLX4N4
- vmception 4y agoDoes IEX have any liquidity or uptake yet?
- infinityio 4y agoApparently they have 2.6% market share for trading in the US?
- Nition 4y agoI think Misdicorl meant that their story of wanting to be the furthest away is perhaps untrue, not the cables.
- Humdeee 4y agoI work in this space and although true (this is called modal dispersion), there are compensation techniques always used in termination equipment to 'handicap' or mitigate these occurrences. Not perfect, but very, very, very small deltas. Unsure if it's enough to act upon without knowing the length from output to next input.