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One of my clients back at a large financial software and data provider, was a southern market making firm. They kept complaining about "the whole desk being sl
by xyzelement 4y ago
One of my clients back at a large financial software and data provider, was a southern market making firm.
They kept complaining about "the whole desk being slow" and we spent weeks trying to figure out what was wrong with our software.
Eventually we figured out the whole firm was nuts about golf, and they'd all stream golf tournament to their workstations at the same time and saturate their ISDN or whatever they had.
- steveBK123 4y ago10+ years ago the networking team at a big European bank I worked for, observed that the biggest usage of network bandwidth on the trading floor desktop network was not the Bloomberg Terminal, market data, or trading application traffic.. but Youtube :-)
- bee_rider 4y agoWouldn’t surprise me if YouTube, Spotify, etc were some of the biggest resources users in many offices. Maybe it would be useful to have a local company radio streaming service, haha.