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Serious algorithmic traders use point-to-point microwave links, because the speed of radio waves in air is about 50% faster than light in a glass fiber.



The majority of the latency improvment from these hft networks is because the path taken by them is more direct. Fiber routes follow roads and railroad tracks. The series of point to point antennas takes closer to a straight line.


With a phased array could you link this through a LEO swarm to hit targets hidden beyond the horizon?

I'm super unfamiliar when it comes to this sort of hardware.




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