Microwave or fiber
Difficulty 2 of 5
Chicago to New Jersey: 1,190 km. Towers take about 4.05 ms one way, fiber 6.5 ms. The radio carries 1 Gbit/s and fades in rain. Each second, 8 orders and one 2 MB settlement batch go east. Keep the median under 5 ms, and deliver 99 percent through a storm.
Options
- All traffic on fiber
- All traffic on the towers, fiber as backup
- Orders on the towers, settlement on fiber, fiber as backup
Goals and limits
- p50 latency
- under 5 ms
- Availability
- at least 99%
- Monthly cost
- under 100,000 USD/mo
Concepts
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