*nods* They've already bought fiber routes from at least one oil company to then provide general purpose Internet over. Good stuff. GCI and ACS need some competition.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Reynolds" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, February 6, 2016 7:43:47 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] HFT Networks Haaaayyyy now, that's bringing a lot of bandwidth in to the state of Alaska as well, and dear god do they need it. On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Eric Kuhnke < [email protected] > wrote: That makes me happy to be on the west coast. No trading exchange in Seattle to interconnect with. I feel sympathy for anyone trying to do new part101 PTP links in the general area between Chicago and NYC. Now, the ultimate HFT venture capital weirdness is the people raising money to build a new submarine fibre cable between London and Tokyo via the high Canadian arctic. It'll probably have 10G waves priced 5x higher than the competing options because it'll have at least 20ms lower latency than all other routes. http://arcticfibre.com/ http://arcticfibre.com/category/press-releases/page/2/ On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Mike Hammett < [email protected] > wrote: <blockquote> Old saves (almost two years), but it gives you an idea of how many are doing this and how extensively. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP </blockquote>
