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To: axial who wrote (31589)	10/5/2009 1:52:58 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

I had occasion to dine with some of my quant acquaintances over the weekend. So I know fully of that which you speak. Their usual up selves turned noticeably defensive when I turned the conversation in the direction of the Lehman affair. I took the hint immediately and, since I was hosting this particular gathering, I moved the discussion over to a less eye-glazing (and perhaps less discomforting) subject, submarine cable technologies, without dropping a stitch. ------

To: axial who wrote (31589)	10/5/2009 11:35:35 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Rob Powell mentions this discussion on his Telecom Ramblings blog and posts a couple dozen links pointing to related stories: The Extent of the Latency War in Financial Networking October 4th, 2009 by Rob Powell On his own message board, regular commenter Frank Coluccio suggested in response to an Abovenet PR recently that we have a latency war on our hands. Indeed, a war has been escalating all year in the financial vertical relating to high frequency trading, next generation networks, and ultra-low latency fiber paths. To refresh my memory I thought I’d go back and find the half dozen or more or so press releases I remembered on the subject since the beginning of the year and look for patterns. Cont.: telecomramblings.com ------