Think you can beat the HFTs with light speed connections to the currency desks, eh?
Only if I have a giant microwave oven...
Seriously: For a lot of HFTs, optical fibre is still too slow—the technology used in current transatlantic cables, for example, does not *begin* to approach the speed of light—as most people know, glass has excellent refractive properties...
They’ve moved on to direct, point-to-point wireless links. Lasers, satellites, microwave, millimetre-wave transmissions...oh my.....(in Takei’s inflection)