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High-Frequency Traders Use 50-Year-Old Wireless Tech

Posted by Unknown on from the get-with-the-times dept.

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."

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  1. Re:line of SIGHT by Intrepid+imaginaut · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Spellcheckers are responsible for this plague sweeping the internets. Someone clicks "autocorrect", thinks "good enough", and bam, another malformed post is hanging out for all the world to see. Language built civilisation folks, why do you hate civilisation?