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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:Great... by serviscope_minor · · Score: 1, Troll

    I doubt the government is going to make 98% of itself illegal.

    Ah, so you're one of the lol gubbermint is teh evul lol111!!one crowd, eh?

    So, which 98% of the government would you scrap?

    The roads?

    Education?

    The military?

    Fire service?

    Police service?

    Funding research?

    Disaster management?

    Trash collection?

    The courts?

    Helth service (if you have one)?

    Social security (if you answer yes to this, would you also increase funding to the police by 100x to deal with the inevitible fallout)?

    Environmentla protection and regulation?

    Prisons?

    etc?

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