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To: TimF who wrote (33677)	9/8/2017 12:40:53 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362972

There you go again, obfuscating the issue and trying to bog it down in minutia. The point is not the amount of work that can be done in some arbitrary unit of time. The only reason for mentioning it is that with modern hardware, lots of work can be done in a microsecond, it isn't a period of time that is so insignificant that it can be ignored. So it is important, very important, to shave even microseconds off of an exchange. That gives an advantage. The reason they use the microwave towers is that it enables them to bypass some parts of the switching network. The parts they cannot bypass are the same parts as anyone else uses and so experiences the same latency. But the parts they bypass, they are substituting the latency of their own switching network for the parts they bypass. And that has less latency. Exactly how much is not known. But in the case mentioned, they spent $14 million for the land and paid a premium to ensure they got it. So it is worth that, plus the cost of the equipment to do it. So the exact numbers are not relevant. Their system gives them an advantage and it is worth a minimum of 8 figures to gain it.