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Don't underestimate the desire of Wall Street for lower network latency. A 33% reduction in latency is a BIG DEAL when you do high-frequency trading.
by riobard 14y ago
Don't underestimate the desire of Wall Street for lower network latency. A 33% reduction in latency is a BIG DEAL when you do high-frequency trading.
- peeters 14y agoOK, say it does. But give it a few years for the technology to propagate, and all traders will have the same latency, eliminating any advantage it once had. So not really revolutionary in the big picture for that case.
- niggler 14y ago"all traders will have the same latency" Still not the case. The state-of-the-art networking technologies are expensive (300K+/yr per data center plus inter-facility connectivity running into the 1-5M/yr range)
- pquerna 14y agoSure, Finance will be the first to adopt, but it actually has pretty big implications in larger internet use cases. Lets say your application needs <50ms latency, low enough that your users can't notice. Today, you'll something around 10 datacenters in the USA/Canada to achieve this. If cut that down by 31%, you might only need 6. (or less, this would take some real math to figure out). But the impact is pretty large in the long run, if it can really cut long haul latencies by 31%.