[ale] nanoseconds and milliseconds

[Jim Kinney]

At a prior work place, a latency induced failure appeared in a project. So
a large wooden spool of fiber was acquired. By adding appropriate fiber
crossover lines, it was possible to test latencies created by up to several
km of fiber.

Copper won't work that way as it requires a regeneration at 300m.
On Apr 2, 2014 7:33 AM, "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought that it was common knowledge that even tiny increments of time
> were worth it - I've seen articles about trading houses vying for getting
> their equipment into the same building as the network infrastructure to
> minimize latency, or the rental prices for the building around the ISP
> going up as trading houses fought over them
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Nah. They use cat6 b. It's just like cat but it's made by the monster
>> speaker wire company and costs $1B per millisecond of delay.
>>
>> MUWAHAHAHA!
>> On Apr 2, 2014 12:19 AM, "H P Ladds" <householdwords at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Fun article. That's how they slowed down billionaire bad guys?
>>> Intentionally increasing and controlling network latency by using really
>>> long coils of wire -- you're putting me on. I wonder if they use simple Cat
>>> 5/6 on Wall Street?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Preston L.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Those who watch their own stock portfolios probably need to read this
>>>> article from the NYT on how one really bright guy figured out how the stock
>>>> market REALLY works. Or, to put it another way, a few milliseconds are more
>>>> important than you imagine.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/magazine/flash-boys-michael-lewis.html
>>>>
>>>> Sean
>>>>
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