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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (36276)	10/17/2010 4:43:14 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 46821

Data speed/delivery was of no matter. Networks we have today are cost-based buildouts. Before, your data might be hopping around and you only cared about two things: that it arrived. That the pipe carried what you threw at it. Enter HFT. You need timely delivery. If I have a Tier 1 ISP that pays transit to Tier 2 ISP and those peer to other Tier 2 ISPs, I end up with a network cost based. Look at the present geography of the Internet. That topology arises from those premises: --The countries where the Internet first developed. --The countries that had the capital to deploy fiber infrastructure. (it fed on the former, where there was traffic to warrant that constrution. While no one wants to give away its position of power: ownership of that present infrastructure that you milk for profits, there is this crucial application that requires low latency.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (36276)	10/17/2010 4:47:07 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 46821

The new incumbents: the owners of Internet routing. Lots of brains toil to make the HFT connection faster at application and algorithms level keeping the existing incumbent-owned geography of the Internet intact. What I keep looking is: who is looking to solve the latency problem via topology change? If there is enough money in this HFT thing, it is going to happen sooner or later.