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Worse fiber is a terrible choice over what’s typically used in low latency trading (which is different than but related than high frequency) - typically microwa
by fnordpiglet 3y ago
Worse fiber is a terrible choice over what’s typically used in low latency trading (which is different than but related than high frequency) - typically microwave networks are used because you get good line of sight advantages and latencies are better. HRT, stryker, and others are heavily dependent on their microwave advantage.
- tonyarkles 3y agoJust to clarify this for people who don't know the EE details of this. Even direct point-to-point fiber suffers compared to microwave because of the velocity factor of the cables. What?! Inside a glass fiber, the speed of light is only about 70% the speed of light in free-space! Microwave in air, though, travels very very close to the free-space velocity of light.