Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.

    • Kazumara@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      The financial types are generally more interested in hollow core fiber, to get their latencies even further down for high frequency trading. Because light travels at almost c in hollow core but only at 2/3 c in fiber core.

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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      Actually Wall Street intentionally increases their latency

      Some guy figured out that trades were getting sniped due to some locations having more latency than others relative to the trade location, so he developed a solution that intentionally lags the connection on different wires so that everyone gets their trade updates simultaneously and can’t snipe each other to up the prices on other people’s buys.