Arctic fibre, if built, will service Iqaluit and maybe one other city. 95% of Nunavut by square km will remain dependent on satellite. It makes sense, the total population is about 32,000 people spread over a truly vast area. On Feb 7, 2016 6:16 AM, "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> wrote:
> BTW: They're already building west, I assume to the northwest. Well, at > least the PCNs are going in, I'm not sure if any of the paths have actually > been licensed or built yet. I'll check on that. I assume to hit the > submarine cables going to Tokyo and Hong Kong. > > Arctic Fiber has multiple prongs: > > 1) HFT > 2) Ability to avoid the US > 3) Non-satellite Internet to remote areas of Alaksa and Canada > 4) Non-HFT applications that benefit from decreased latency > > There are other routes going on as well, such as one or more that goes > over Russia instead of over Canada. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Eric Kuhnke" <[email protected]> > *To: *[email protected] > *Sent: *Saturday, February 6, 2016 6:20:34 PM > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] HFT Networks > > 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: > >> 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 <http://www.ics-il.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> >> >> >> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >> > > >
