.....just a curiosity: It's less than 50 minutes in between the offices of Liberty Global, Discovery Communications, Level 3, Orange Group, (EE in UK) and DUTV in London
Level 3 Communications Limited
7th Floor
10 Fleet Place
London, EC4M 7RB
T : +44 (0)845 000 1000
europe@level3.com
F : +44 (0)207 954 2385
Business Center
in London, Canary Wharf - 25 Canada Square
Level 33,25 Canada Square,Canary Wharf,London,E14 5LB
Read More: http://investorshangout.com/post/view?id=2552...z3UD6uFnpW
distance from 10 Fleet Place, London to Canary Wharf, London (ie level 3 to DUTV office)
19 min (4.6 mi)
via A1203
21 min (4.4 mi)
via Commercial Rd/A13
23 min (4.5 mi)
via A1211 and A1203
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&...wMYz7IYTkY
38 Hans Crescent
London
12300 Liberty Boulevard
Englewood, Colorado
http://www.libertyglobal.com/about-us-contact-us.aspx
Discovery communications office in NY
850 Third Avenue
New York, NY
in FL
6505 Blue Lagoon Drive
Suite 190
Miami, FL 33126
in London
Chiswick Park Building 2
566 Chiswick High Road
London
Orange Group (EE in UK)
https://foursquare.com/v/ee/4c2b2ad077cfe21e1500b4f1
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&...-vn9MQ4Nvw
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&...wMYz7IYTkY
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&...K-u5Y3NHQs
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&...VQQA_cwhHQ
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&...o4uUHXQ1kg
....sidenote, w/such undersea cable companies as Liberty Global and L3 close by and DUTV is at the Wharf.......
Cornwall beach buoys London’s financial status (....not the Wharf, but I got the idea)
By Gill Plimmer and Philip Stafford
Crooklets beach near Bude is known as one of Cornwall’s best surfing beaches, exposed to large breakers that roll in from the Atlantic when conditions are right.
Yet it also has a hidden role in supporting London’s status as Europe’s top financial centre.
The beach is one of the main landing points for thousands of miles of submarine cables that carry trading data from New York.
Britain’s westerly location means data can reach traders in London several milliseconds quicker than competitors in Frankfurt and Paris – a key advantage in the era of high-frequency trading.
Now the Crown Estate, which is responsible for managing the UK’s seabed, is looking to promote the value of those cables. Income from licences for cables and pipelines rose 10.4 per cent to £12.7m in 2012 but the benefits to Britain’s economy are much wider.
“The UK is an underwater cable hub for all the financial institutions in Europe,” says Jack Steven, asset manager at the Crown Estate. “The alternative is to go through somewhere like Portugal, which is closer to the US but which historically hasn’t developed capacity in the same way.”
According to the Crown Estate, about 95 per cent of the UK’s communication, such as email, internet and telephone calls, is transmitted through submarine cables. They are cheaper and more reliable than satellites, which are expensive to get into orbit and vulnerable to collisions with space debris.
The shorter the cables, the quicker data can be transferred. It takes about 65 milliseconds to trade between London and New York. From east London it takes a further five milliseconds to Frankfurt.
“We are talking about fractions of a second but if you reach those financial markets quicker, you have an advantage,” says Mr Steven.
Cornwall has played a key role in international communications since the 19th century, when Porthcurno was the landing point for a network of submarine telegraph cables connecting Britain with its empire.
Today, fibre optic cables come ashore at several locations in southwest England, providing one of the main trunk routes for the world wide web.
According to the Submarine Telecoms Forum, an industry body, more than $2bn is invested each year in 50,000km of underwater routing worldwide. But with surplus capacity on the transatlantic route the UK has not needed large-scale investment for several years.
Nevertheless, private companies including Hibernia Networks and Reliance Globalcom are each laying better quality fibre optic cables across the Atlantic for financial markets customers. That investment, at a cost of $300m per cable, is expected to save about six milliseconds of time.
John Superson, co-founder of Sumo Capital, a Chicago-based electronic trading firm, says high-speed transatlantic connections are “very important” to the industry.
Seabed cables face risks, mostly from fishermen who may snag them with their lines or drag their anchors through them. “The UK is in a fantastic position as it has multiple cables,” says Mr Steven. “Australia is serviced by only a handful of cables so if one goes down it could have a much bigger impact.”
Jock Percy, chief executive of Perseus Telecom, one of the companies funding a cable-laying project, says: “There are 13 transatlantic cables and 10 of them touch the UK directly. It’s really about linking two major economies – the US and Europe – through England.”
The first submarine cable was laid between Ireland and Newfoundland in 1866. It transmitted 12 words a minute through morse code.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c7b797f2-b3ef-11e2-...z3UDL0O2Oy
Level 3 Communications Limited
7th Floor
10 Fleet Place
London, EC4M 7RB
T : +44 (0)845 000 1000
europe@level3.com
F : +44 (0)207 954 2385
Business Center
in London, Canary Wharf - 25 Canada Square
Level 33,25 Canada Square,Canary Wharf,London,E14 5LB
Read More: http://investorshangout.com/post/view?id=2552...z3UD6uFnpW
distance from 10 Fleet Place, London to Canary Wharf, London (ie level 3 to DUTV office)
19 min (4.6 mi)
via A1203
21 min (4.4 mi)
via Commercial Rd/A13
23 min (4.5 mi)
via A1211 and A1203
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&...wMYz7IYTkY
38 Hans Crescent
London
12300 Liberty Boulevard
Englewood, Colorado
http://www.libertyglobal.com/about-us-contact-us.aspx
Discovery communications office in NY
850 Third Avenue
New York, NY
in FL
6505 Blue Lagoon Drive
Suite 190
Miami, FL 33126
in London
Chiswick Park Building 2
566 Chiswick High Road
London
Orange Group (EE in UK)
https://foursquare.com/v/ee/4c2b2ad077cfe21e1500b4f1
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&...-vn9MQ4Nvw
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&...wMYz7IYTkY
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&...K-u5Y3NHQs
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&...VQQA_cwhHQ
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&...o4uUHXQ1kg
....sidenote, w/such undersea cable companies as Liberty Global and L3 close by and DUTV is at the Wharf.......
Cornwall beach buoys London’s financial status (....not the Wharf, but I got the idea)
By Gill Plimmer and Philip Stafford
Crooklets beach near Bude is known as one of Cornwall’s best surfing beaches, exposed to large breakers that roll in from the Atlantic when conditions are right.
Yet it also has a hidden role in supporting London’s status as Europe’s top financial centre.
The beach is one of the main landing points for thousands of miles of submarine cables that carry trading data from New York.
Britain’s westerly location means data can reach traders in London several milliseconds quicker than competitors in Frankfurt and Paris – a key advantage in the era of high-frequency trading.
Now the Crown Estate, which is responsible for managing the UK’s seabed, is looking to promote the value of those cables. Income from licences for cables and pipelines rose 10.4 per cent to £12.7m in 2012 but the benefits to Britain’s economy are much wider.
“The UK is an underwater cable hub for all the financial institutions in Europe,” says Jack Steven, asset manager at the Crown Estate. “The alternative is to go through somewhere like Portugal, which is closer to the US but which historically hasn’t developed capacity in the same way.”
According to the Crown Estate, about 95 per cent of the UK’s communication, such as email, internet and telephone calls, is transmitted through submarine cables. They are cheaper and more reliable than satellites, which are expensive to get into orbit and vulnerable to collisions with space debris.
The shorter the cables, the quicker data can be transferred. It takes about 65 milliseconds to trade between London and New York. From east London it takes a further five milliseconds to Frankfurt.
“We are talking about fractions of a second but if you reach those financial markets quicker, you have an advantage,” says Mr Steven.
Cornwall has played a key role in international communications since the 19th century, when Porthcurno was the landing point for a network of submarine telegraph cables connecting Britain with its empire.
Today, fibre optic cables come ashore at several locations in southwest England, providing one of the main trunk routes for the world wide web.
According to the Submarine Telecoms Forum, an industry body, more than $2bn is invested each year in 50,000km of underwater routing worldwide. But with surplus capacity on the transatlantic route the UK has not needed large-scale investment for several years.
Nevertheless, private companies including Hibernia Networks and Reliance Globalcom are each laying better quality fibre optic cables across the Atlantic for financial markets customers. That investment, at a cost of $300m per cable, is expected to save about six milliseconds of time.
John Superson, co-founder of Sumo Capital, a Chicago-based electronic trading firm, says high-speed transatlantic connections are “very important” to the industry.
Seabed cables face risks, mostly from fishermen who may snag them with their lines or drag their anchors through them. “The UK is in a fantastic position as it has multiple cables,” says Mr Steven. “Australia is serviced by only a handful of cables so if one goes down it could have a much bigger impact.”
Jock Percy, chief executive of Perseus Telecom, one of the companies funding a cable-laying project, says: “There are 13 transatlantic cables and 10 of them touch the UK directly. It’s really about linking two major economies – the US and Europe – through England.”
The first submarine cable was laid between Ireland and Newfoundland in 1866. It transmitted 12 words a minute through morse code.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c7b797f2-b3ef-11e2-...z3UDL0O2Oy
