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To: OX who wrote (43028)	12/30/2000 5:57:55 PM
From: Louis V. Lambrecht	Respond to of 44573

OX - close to the backbone... depends on the speed at which you jump all the hops. But the more hops, the more packets get lost, the more you need a faster CPU. I was speaking from the client side. At the broker side (seen today one of the clearing houses claiming to have business with 200 IBs), they need a connection broad enough to satisfy their traffic. (Plus redundancy and so on). You know the problems we experiment with QCharts. Point 2: having a reliable ISP close to the backbone, and point ?, having a fast CPU are the most important items that depend on your choice. All other communication delays can, from there on, be passed in the hands of the broker (and the long distance carrier, but that is a dicussion of both the broker and yourself against the carrier). TraceRoute systems should be run and data recorded regularly to serve as material against the broker's techies who always will put the blame on you.