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> people engaged in high-frequency trading

These people pay to have their servers colocated with the trading servers they are communicating with. That would be like having a VoIP call with someone sitting next to you connected to the same switch.



Though I doubt the difference between a 50ms vs 2ms latency would be perceivable for a phone communication.




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