“Companies like Bayliff’s are looking for ways to shave time, and the easiest method is to build a more direct route. Last year, Mississippi-based Spread Networks opened a shorter connection between New York and Chicago that saved about three milliseconds and was estimated to have cost $300 million to develop. Huawei is working with another company, Hibernia Atlantic, to lay the first transatlantic fiber-optic submarine cable in a decade, a $400-million-plus project that will save traders five milliseconds.”
Fiber-Optic Transatlantic Cable Could Save Milliseconds, Millions by Speeding Data to Stock Traders | Popular Science, via blech.
Temporal real estate gets expensive. Stake your claim now.
It’s like hard core gamers buying high networking equipment to reduce lag and increase their frag count, except they’re playing with billions and trillions.
