<story><title>Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/22/elon-musk-tweets-using-spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tpmx</author><text>I saw something interesting the other day that I had previously missed:&lt;p&gt;Starlink has the potential to provide lower latency around the globe than terrestrial fiber because light travels faster in vacuum than in optical silica fiber.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discovery.ucl.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;id&amp;#x2F;eprint&amp;#x2F;10062262&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discovery.ucl.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;id&amp;#x2F;eprint&amp;#x2F;10062262&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;mjh&amp;#x2F;starlink-draft.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;mjh&amp;#x2F;starlink-draft.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We conclude that a network built in this manner can provide lower latency communications than any possible terrestrial optical fiber network for communications over distances greater than about 3000 km.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jb775</author><text>I wonder how the Starlink latency compares to the current microwave technologies used by high frequency trading firms. Any slight latency improvement is a game-changer in the HFT industry.</text></comment>
<story><title>Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/22/elon-musk-tweets-using-spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tpmx</author><text>I saw something interesting the other day that I had previously missed:&lt;p&gt;Starlink has the potential to provide lower latency around the globe than terrestrial fiber because light travels faster in vacuum than in optical silica fiber.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discovery.ucl.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;id&amp;#x2F;eprint&amp;#x2F;10062262&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discovery.ucl.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;id&amp;#x2F;eprint&amp;#x2F;10062262&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;mjh&amp;#x2F;starlink-draft.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;mjh&amp;#x2F;starlink-draft.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We conclude that a network built in this manner can provide lower latency communications than any possible terrestrial optical fiber network for communications over distances greater than about 3000 km.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ortusdux</author><text>I expect some early customers to be trading houses that want a faster connection for HFT.</text></comment>