http://arcticfibre.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ArcticFibre-1.7.14.jpg
It looks like they plan on eight landing stations in Alaska and another seven in Canada, though I won't pretend to know and don't care enough to lookup the populations at them all. There is another cable proposed to go all over the place in northern Canada. For sure there will still be vast areas that will be satellite only, but any steps towards reducing that number... ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Kuhnke" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2016 2:11:30 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] HFT Networks 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 Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP 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: <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>
