The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth
by Guillaume Pitron · 14 Jun 2023 · 271pp · 79,355 words
s an entertaining mix of actors. But it is not fiction. We go back to 2010, the year when the US firm Hibernia Atlantic announces its plans to build the Hibernia Express cable.35 More than the first transatlantic route deployed in 12 years, it will be, say its promoters, a 4,600
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
by Andrew Blum · 28 May 2012 · 314pp · 83,631 words
our competitors,” Cooper said, rubbing his brow. The first new transatlantic cable in a decade will be laid in 2012 by a small company called Hibernia-Atlantic. They designed it from scratch to be the fastest. The micro geography matters just as much. Specialized ships conduct surveys of the ocean bottom, carefully
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world. The Porthcurno Telegraph Museum is an invaluable resource for the history of undersea cables; archivist Alan Renton became a friend in the valley. At Hibernia Atlantic, Bjarni Thorvardarson welcomed me in and Tom Burfitt gave a great tour. At Tata Communications, Simon Cooper allowed everything to happen, most especially the chance
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Great Western Railway, 203 Greenpeace, 230, 261 Hafner, Katie, 51 Halifax, Canada: cable station near, 211 Hankins, Greg, 157, 159 HEPnet, 52 Hewlett-Packard, 74 Hibernia-Atlantic, 199 High Performance Computing and Communications Act (“Gore Bill”), 63 High Rise (Ballard), 181–82 Homeland Security, US Department of, 238 Honeywell DDP–516 minicomputer
The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling
by Adam Kucharski · 23 Feb 2016 · 360pp · 85,321 words
slightly longer wire can lead to a critical delay in making a trade. Some are going to even more extreme lengths. In 2011, US firm Hibernia Atlantic started work on a new $300 million transatlantic cable, which will allow data to cross the ocean faster than ever before. Unlike previous wires, it
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, 122, 204 hedging bets, 95, 96, 99 Heeb, Randal, 198, 199, 200, 201 Henry, Thierry, 104 Heuer, Andreas, 78 Hibbs, Albert, 3–4, 7, 21 Hibernia Atlantic, 113 Hilbert, David, 150 hockey, 85, 204, 205, 207 Holt, Matthew, 88 Hong Kong Jockey Club, 43, 90 horse racing bankroll management in, 65–67
Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market
by Scott Patterson · 11 Jun 2012 · 356pp · 105,533 words
Spread Networks plugged into Nasdaq, fiber-optic companies Hibernia Atlantic, based in Summit, New Jersey, and Huawai Marine Networks, of Tianjin, China, announced a plan to lay the first transatlantic fiber-optic cable built in a decade, a half-billion-dollar project that was projected to cut five milliseconds off trades between New York
Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets
by Donald MacKenzie · 24 May 2021 · 400pp · 121,988 words
and selling of the underlying Treasurys, which are traded in the two datacenters in New Jersey shown in the map in figure 4.1. Via Hibernia Atlantic’s ultrafast transatlantic cable, it will receive data on the trading of futures on UK sovereign bonds (these futures are traded in a datacenter just
Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent
by Douglas Coupland · 29 Sep 2014 · 124pp · 36,360 words
Fiber Optic Gulf Fibralink Finland Estonia Connection Gemini Bermuda Geo-Eirgrid GO-1 Mediterranean Cable System Gondwana-1 Greenland Connect Guam Okinama Kyushu Incheon (GOKI) Hibernia Atlantic Hokkaido-Sakhalin Cable System Kattegat 1 Kodiak Kenai Fiber Link Latin American Nautilus Latvia-Sweden 1 (LV-SE 1) Lower Indian Ocean Network (LION) North