To be honest - it's terrestrial IPVPN/Private line ATM with way less latency and an SLA behind the service - garanteed. When trading the LVL 2 window - milliseconds count - the first one in line gets the order. Does your ISP call you when your Internet service is down to say:Quote from wucah:
And swifttrade uses some Space age satelites that omit the internet? Or maybe they have their own fiber under the ocean right? You sound like one of the developers at swift, isn't their code still based on excel, or written in LOGO? If they switch to office 2007, excel can have more entries in it so maybe the system won't go down as much! And you won't have to execution servers down errors. Also other swifties reading this you should suggest this to your managers, together you can change the system!
"we're sorry that your service is down - we'll get that fixed right away"? No... you call them and bitch and whine. You've all done it. Your a number in their billing system - that's all. Sure you pay more for a private line - but when it comes down to the $ on a trade due to a time issue - tell me where the money is?
Smarten up. There's a given 5000+ people looking at any given high volume order on NQDF - you tell me who the hell is going to get that order with the Chinese government delaying your packet through an IDS system adding 100ms of latency and 10% packet loss.
Like I said - smarten up.
Oh....and btw - satellite - ya - you would suggest that. 500ms for geostationary satellites - wonderful. Why not trade on a 2400bps modem line too? Mindless mouthpiece.