Tony Li wrote: > > Hi Marshall, > > |Given that the financial people are concerned with millisecond > |delays, > |10 msec > |is clearly not enough for some trading applications. See, e.g., > | > |http://www.usfst.com/currentissue/article.asp?art=275136&issue=281 > | > |"a millisecond advantage in trading applications can be worth $100 > |million a year to a major brokerage firm." > | > |Much of their use of multicast is driven by such considerations. > | > | Whether they have thought this through or not > |is another question. > > > Is there any bound to the amount of delay that they can exploit? It would > seem that given a 1 ms offset, someone will work hard to exploit that. This > simply becomes an arms race down to a femto-second. > > Tony
That's easy, just flood the network with traffic. It's not the clock that's being discussed, it the speed at which the application gets updates or send updates. What this has to do with a race I cannot imagine. Danny _______________________________________________ TICTOC mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tictoc
