[151536] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Fri Mar 23 19:53:14 2012
In-Reply-To: <4F6C9C35.8080603@foobar.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:52:25 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> On 23/03/2012 15:16, Joel jaeggli wrote:
>> Notwithstanding how bad an idea high speed trading from the vantage
>> point of those who don't participate in it, 60ms would place you at a
>> competitive disadvantage to traders that are collocated at or near the
>> exchange, such that if you're engaged in an arbitrage activity between
>> two markets someone can frontrun your front-running.
>
> I'd be quite interested in seeing the MTTR for a sub-ice cable break which
> happened in late october.
hopefully it's harder to drag an anchor then ... so it won't happen? :)
