Comment by PaulDavisThe1st
6 months ago
> we'd switch to Starlink (at much lower total bandwidth)
That's some kind of understatement, assuming that TFA is correct:
> Satellites would not be able to pick up even half a percent of the traffic.
I very much doubt that the trading systems that today rely on international data cables can be run via phones and voice communications, and I also wonder just how much of the phone system (even domestically within the USA) paradoxically relies in submarine cables.
> Satellites would not be able to pick up even half a percent of the traffic.
So? How much of that traffic is video? If you eliminate that, what percentage of the rest can satellite pick up?
I was not proposing that trading systems run via phones and voice. No, those are much less bandwidth-efficient than data. I was proposing that they continue to be run by data, just with lower frequency. (Will the global economy really collapse without HFT on currencies?)