{"id":11852,"date":"2013-12-01T11:22:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T17:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11852"},"modified":"2013-12-01T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T17:22:19","slug":"firms-race-to-transmit-wall-street-data-at-nearly-light-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11852","title":{"rendered":"Firms race to transmit Wall Street data at nearly light speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Through a series of microwave towers, the dish beams market data 734 miles to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange&#8217;s computer warehouse in Aurora, Ill., in 4.13 milliseconds, or about 95% of the theoretical speed of light, according to the company.<\/p>\n<p>Fiber-optic cables, which are made up of long strands of glass, carry data at roughly 65% of light speed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-high-speed-trading-20131130,0,2898583.story#ixzz2mBosaaZP\">Firms race to transmit Wall Street data at nearly light speed &#8211; latimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through a series of microwave towers, the dish beams market data 734 miles to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange&#8217;s computer warehouse in Aurora, Ill., in 4.13 milliseconds, or about 95% of the theoretical speed of light, according to the company. Fiber-optic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11852\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[144,740,1236,739],"class_list":["post-11852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-antennas","tag-hft","tag-microwave","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11853,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11852\/revisions\/11853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}