[AusNOG] Vocus Harbour Crossing

[Lincoln Dale]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Christopher Pilgrim
<chris at pilgrim.net.au>wrote:

> Measuring the latency across the harbour is hardly relevant.


Dare I suggest it, but the fact that this is being put in by Vocus means
that there probably is at least someone with money who think it is relevant.


>
> The lowest latency between the ASX at Gore Hill and major finance
> buildings (say 2 Chifley Sq, Governor Phillip Tower, AMP Building for
> example) will always be through the harbour tunnel, and you could even
> argue that the lowest latency from the ASX to Global Switch is still via
> the bridge by the time you take into account the network either side of the
> actual harbour crossing.
>

Not sure I follow you.  All I'd expect either side of the actual harbour is
a splice and no pesky conversion from photons to electrons let alone
anything above layer 1.


> There is some demand for low latency circuits between ASX Gore Hill and
> Chi-X at Equinix SY1, but as Chi-X currently account for only  2-3% of
> trading volume in Australia (at the moment anyway) I'm not sure how much
> demand there will actually be.
>

Arbitrage is only part of the equation and as you state not as relevant in
the Australian industry at this point in time. In reality, arbitrage can't
really be that useful in Australia as the rules state that market orders
must be met at the lowest price between Chi-X and ASX anyway.


On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Ankur Puri <Ankur.Puri at au.ntt.com> wrote:

>  Someone has been reading the news and CommsDay! J
>

i hadn't, actually. Just knew the geography and demands of certain
customers very very well. :)


cheers,

lincoln.
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