Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-26 Thread Rodrick Brown
On Mar 26, 2012, at 9:32 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:59:34 -0400, Rodrick Brown said: >> HIgh frequency trading does provide a service to the financial markets as a >> whole despite what the media and government politicians will have you think. > > OK, I'll bite. W

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-26 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:59:34 -0400, Rodrick Brown said: > HIgh frequency trading does provide a service to the financial markets as a > whole despite what the media and government politicians will have you think. OK, I'll bite. What benefit does the market *as a whole* get from the ability to do t

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-26 Thread Rodrick Brown
On Mar 23, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >>> The massive drop in latency is expected to supercharge algorithmic stock >>> market trading, where a difference of a few milliseconds can gain (or lose) >>> millions of dollars. >> But it should be illegal to

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-26 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:16:53 +0200, Tei said: > I imagine a easier solution. Use a random number generator in both > sides, with the same seed. Then use a slower way to send "packets > re-sync" that will contain the delta from the generated number, to the > real actual number. Congrats. You've

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-26 Thread Joe Loiacono
Tei wrote on 03/26/2012 06:16:53 AM: > I imagine a easier solution. Use a random number generator in both > sides, with the same seed. Then use a slower way to send "packets > re-sync" that will contain the delta from the generated number, to the > real actual number. > > I suppose this speeds

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-26 Thread Tei
On 23 March 2012 13:31, Aled Morris wrote: > On 23 March 2012 11:53, Eugen Leitl wrote: > >> All three cables are being laid for the same reasons: Redundancy and speed. >> As it stands, it takes roughly 230 milliseconds for a packet to go from >> London to Tokyo; the new cables will reduce this b

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-24 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:51 AM, George Herbert wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Marshall Eubanks > wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:14 PM,   wrote: >>> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:16:59 -0700, George Herbert said: The physics is not conducive to improving the situation a lot. >

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-24 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 24/03/2012 00:32, George Bonser wrote: > I suggested this once when it was decided that the latency from > California to the UK was too high and that I should reduce it. The > company wouldn't go for it, though. I assume they had a practical alternative to your proposition? Perhaps making lig

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-24 Thread Joly MacFie
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Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 3/24/12 01:32 , George Bonser wrote: >> If they could armor the cable sufficiently perhaps they could drill the >> straigh line path through the Earth's crust (mantle and outer core) and >> do London-Tokyo in less than 10,000km. Current record depth of a borehole is under 12,500 meters which is

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 3/23/12 19:45 , Jeroen van Aart wrote: > valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >>> The massive drop in latency is expected to supercharge algorithmic stock >>> market trading, where a difference of a few milliseconds can gain (or >>> lose) >>> millions of dollars. >> >> But it should be illegal to run

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread George Herbert
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:14 PM,   wrote: >> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:16:59 -0700, George Herbert said: >>> The physics is not conducive to improving the situation a lot. >>> >>> There's probably $1.5 billion in the ground already in neutrin

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:14 PM, wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:16:59 -0700, George Herbert said: >> The physics is not conducive to improving the situation a lot. >> >> There's probably $1.5 billion in the ground already in neutrino >> detectors; the total combined detector bit rate is pretty p

RE: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread George Bonser
> > I'd be quite interested in seeing the MTTR for a sub-ice cable break > which happened in late october. > > Nick Well, you won't have to worry about people dragging anchor across the cable. Other than earthquake or volcanic eruption, I can't imagine what would damage a cable that time of y

RE: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread George Bonser
> If they could armor the cable sufficiently perhaps they could drill the > straigh line path through the Earth's crust (mantle and outer core) and > do London-Tokyo in less than 10,000km. > > Aled I suggested this once when it was decided that the latency from California to the UK was too high

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 23/03/2012 15:16, Joel jaeggli wrote: >> Notwithstanding how bad an idea high speed trading from the vantage >> point of those who don't participate in it, 60ms would place you at a >> competitive disadvantage to traders that are collocat

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread George Herbert
>From the abstract: "The link achieved a decoded data rate of 0.1 bits/sec with a bit error rate of 1% over a distance of 1.035 km, including 240 m of earth." http://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.2847v1.pdf For practical communications, at longer distances, you probably lose beam intensity as a 1/R^2 funct

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Robert Bonomi
Jeroen van Aart wrote: > valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > >> The massive drop in latency is expected to supercharge algorithmic stock > >> market trading, where a difference of a few milliseconds can gain (or lose) > >> millions of dollars. > > > > But it should be illegal to run a stock market

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Simon Lyall
You guys joke but here is n little article from last week on the current state of Neutrino communications: http://www.economist.com/node/21550242 "The neutrinos themselves are created by smashing bunches of protons into a target made of graphite. They are detected roughly 1km away by researc

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:16:59 -0700, George Herbert said: > The physics is not conducive to improving the situation a lot. > > There's probably $1.5 billion in the ground already in neutrino > detectors; the total combined detector bit rate is pretty poor. One > experiment looking at neutrinos comi

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Phil Regnauld" > Subject: Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms > Vitkovsky, Adam (avitkovsky) writes: > > > > Can't wait for the neutrino SFPs :) > > You know the shipping cost on a 2

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread George Herbert
t; > Regards > Marshall > >> Can't wait for the neutrino SFPs :) >> >> adam >> >> -Original Message----- >> From: Aled Morris [mailto:al...@qix.co.uk] >> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 1:31 PM >> To: Eugen Leitl >> Cc: NANOG list >

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Jeroen van Aart
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: The massive drop in latency is expected to supercharge algorithmic stock market trading, where a difference of a few milliseconds can gain (or lose) millions of dollars. But it should be illegal to run a stock market that volatile. This can't end well. The ave

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Marshall Eubanks
12 1:31 PM > To: Eugen Leitl > Cc: NANOG list > Subject: Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms > > On 23 March 2012 11:53, Eugen Leitl wrote: > >> All three cables are being laid for the same reasons: Redundancy and speed. >> As it stands, it

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread George Herbert
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:21 AM, wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:56:46 -, Brandon Butterworth said: >> > I'd be quite interested in seeing the MTTR for a sub-ice cable break which >> > happened in late october. >> >> More fun too when we get global warming under control and there's no >> lon

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:56:46 -, Brandon Butterworth said: > > I'd be quite interested in seeing the MTTR for a sub-ice cable break which > > happened in late october. > > More fun too when we get global warming under control and there's no > longer any way to reach it Submarines. It's alleged

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread ポール・ロラン
Hello, On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:52:21 + Nick Hilliard wrote: > I'd be quite interested in seeing the MTTR for a sub-ice cable break which > happened in late october. Maybe that's the reason they want to build three with different paths ;) Paul signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Barry Shein
What about those -- I assume successful -- experiments to fire neutrinos straight through the earth as a communications medium? Not sure what the bandwidth of a neutrino stream is. On March 23, 2012 at 12:31 al...@qix.co.uk (Aled Morris) wrote: > On 23 March 2012 11:53, Eugen Leitl wrote: >

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> I'd be quite interested in seeing the MTTR for a sub-ice cable break which > happened in late october. More fun too when we get global warming under control and there's no longer any way to reach it brandon

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 23/03/2012 15:16, Joel jaeggli wrote: > Notwithstanding how bad an idea high speed trading from the vantage > point of those who don't participate in it, 60ms would place you at a > competitive disadvantage to traders that are collocated at or near the > exchange, such that if you're engaged in

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 3/23/12 14:47 , valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:53:45 +0100, Eugen Leitl said: >> http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122989-1-5-billion-the-cost-of-cutting-london-toyko-latency-by-60ms > > Lower latency is good... > >> The massive drop in latency is expected to supercha

RE: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
com] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 2:20 PM To: Vitkovsky, Adam; Aled Morris; Eugen Leitl Cc: NANOG list Subject: RE: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms > -Original Message- > From: Vitkovsky, Adam [mailto:avitkov...@emea.att.com] > Sent: 23 March 20

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:53:45 +0100, Eugen Leitl said: > http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122989-1-5-billion-the-cost-of-cutting-london-toyko-latency-by-60ms Lower latency is good... > The massive drop in latency is expected to supercharge algorithmic stock > market trading, where a difference o

RE: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Leigh Porter
> -Original Message- > From: Vitkovsky, Adam [mailto:avitkov...@emea.att.com] > Sent: 23 March 2012 12:57 > To: Aled Morris; Eugen Leitl > Cc: NANOG list > Subject: RE: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by > 60ms > > That is why there&#x

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Phil Regnauld
Vitkovsky, Adam (avitkovsky) writes: > > Can't wait for the neutrino SFPs :) You know the shipping cost on a 2 light year thick lead SFP ?

RE: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
rris [mailto:al...@qix.co.uk] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 1:31 PM To: Eugen Leitl Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms On 23 March 2012 11:53, Eugen Leitl wrote: > All three cables are being laid for the same reasons: Redundancy and speed. > A

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Aled Morris
On 23 March 2012 11:53, Eugen Leitl wrote: > All three cables are being laid for the same reasons: Redundancy and speed. > As it stands, it takes roughly 230 milliseconds for a packet to go from > London to Tokyo; the new cables will reduce this by 30% to 170ms. This > speed-up will be gained by

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Anurag Bhatia
Yeah this is super cool! I hope ISPs will peer well once cable is ready! (Sent from my mobile device) Anurag Bhatia http://anuragbhatia.com On Mar 23, 2012 5:24 PM, "Eugen Leitl" wrote: > > > http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122989-1-5-billion-the-cost-of-cutting-london-toyko-latency-by-60ms