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High-Frequency Traders Use 50-Year-Old Wireless Tech
jfruh writes "In the world of high-frequency stock trading, every millisecond is money. That's why many firms are getting information and sending big orders not through modern fiber-optic networks, but using line-of-site microwave repeaters, a technology that's over 50 years old. Because electromagnetic radiation passes more quickly through air than glass, and takes a more direct route, the older technology is seeing something of a renaissance."
line of sight
Must be the publiek skool edumakashun.
I think this poor child was left behind.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
I was thinking more along the line of a foil-covered-blimp-in-the-middle attack.
Jeez! due eye half too curect every-one round hear?
So true. High-frequency trading should be made illegal, like most things which just extract money from others without providing value in return.
I doubt the government is going to make 98% of itself illegal.
But aside from that, what have the Romans done for us?
I would be a lot more impressed if you didn't hit any.