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HFT firms have entire infrastructure that runs very close to the speed of light, beating the competition that runs on antiquated copper.
by deadbabe 1y ago
HFT firms have entire infrastructure that runs very close to the speed of light, beating the competition that runs on antiquated copper.
- hhmc 1y agoThere's no competition that's running on copper -- even competitors without latency sensitivity with still be running over fibre because that's just the baseline infrastructure in datacentres, transatlantic etc. Of course, yes, the HFT firms will be using also the standard tricks of microwave towers, shortwave radio, weather balloon etc, to beat the fibre route.