Asia's Fastest Communications Cable Comes Online

2012-08-24 Thread Joly MacFie
http://www.livescience.com/22538-asias-fastest-communications-cable-comes-online.html The fastest-yet communications cable in Asia came online today (Aug. 20). The underwater fiber optic cable links Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore for high-speed, computerized stock

Re: Asia's Fastest Communications Cable Comes Online

2012-08-24 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:25:26 -0400, Joly MacFie said: The gain may sound small, but could prove critical to financial trades made out of the region, according to the report. If you can use 3ms to extract enough money out of the market to pay for a cable, that market is *way* too volatile in

Re: Asia's Fastest Communications Cable Comes Online

2012-08-24 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-08-24, at 10:33 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: If you can use 3ms to extract enough money out of the market to pay for a cable, that market is *way* too volatile in the first place. Heh. Think things are volatile now? Wait 'til they get it down to pico-payment based trading of

Re: Asia's Fastest Communications Cable Comes Online

2012-08-24 Thread Ian Henderson
On 25/08/2012, at 3:33 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: If you can use 3ms to extract enough money out of the market to pay for a cable, that market is *way* too volatile in the first place. 3ms is centuries. :)

Re: Asia's Fastest Communications Cable Comes Online

2012-08-24 Thread Michael Painter
Ian Henderson wrote: Vocus already operates a cable through the Sydney Harbour Tunnel but according to CEO James Spenceley the new cable is some 700 metres shorter and represents the lowest latency link available between the CBD and the ASX data centre. Why does King Lear's That way madness