Hollow-core fiber

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Two exchange datacenters are 50 km apart. A price feed sends bursts of 20 updates of 1,000 bytes, and every update must arrive within 220 µs. Light in standard fiber moves at 0.68 c, in hollow-core fiber at 0.997 c. The radio link runs at 1 Gbit/s. Pick the link.

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99 of 100 requests finish faster than this.What the servers and services cost each month.
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Standard fiber
Hollow-core fiber
1 Gbit/s radio link