5G Cellular draft spec released
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@coliver said in 5G Cellular draft spec released:
@scottalanmiller said in 5G Cellular draft spec released:
@coliver said in 5G Cellular draft spec released:
This was the article.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/private-microwave-networks-financial-hft/
Yeah, that's Europe and dealing with long haul, over water. In trading, your trading floors are only hundreds of feet from the exchanges. Any single hop would be too many.
Got it. They also had done it from NY to Chicago but that looks like it may be defunct now.
That is likely still there. But it is the water in Europe that really makes a difference. I know that the biggest private haul in the world was redundant fiber between NY and London. Microwave in those situations would require balloons or something crazy with many hops.
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@scottalanmiller said in 5G Cellular draft spec released:
@coliver said in 5G Cellular draft spec released:
@scottalanmiller said in 5G Cellular draft spec released:
@coliver said in 5G Cellular draft spec released:
This was the article.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/private-microwave-networks-financial-hft/
Yeah, that's Europe and dealing with long haul, over water. In trading, your trading floors are only hundreds of feet from the exchanges. Any single hop would be too many.
Got it. They also had done it from NY to Chicago but that looks like it may be defunct now.
That is likely still there. But it is the water in Europe that really makes a difference. I know that the biggest private haul in the world was redundant fiber between NY and London. Microwave in those situations would require balloons or something crazy with many hops.
From the article.
I was told about one particularly wild idea, though: building a microwave network across the Atlantic. Theoretically you would place the microwave transceivers on tethered barges (like a small oil rig, essentially), or alternatively use tethered balloons. Like a terrestrial microwave network, the main advantage would be a massive reduction in latency. Currently it takes about 25 milliseconds for a squirt of light to travel the 3,100 miles from the west coast of England to the east side of Long Island, New York; via microwave, it would be closer to 16 milliseconds.
Seems far fetched for sure but would be interesting to see.
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@coliver Not as far fetched as it seems. Biggest issues are the security of remote links.
