how wonderful to read an article about networking and not see "Cisco" mentioned once.

Not that I have anything against Cisco, but it is most certainly not a Cisco-only world, despite what your network manager would tell you...

For god's sake, it's only been a few years since the last meltdown caused by automated trading systems running away in a positive feedback spiral. Anyone who knows anything about economics and about cybernetic control mechanisms would see in an instant that a bit of packet delay is a *good* thing; it amounts to putting some damping on the feedback loop.

A 150 ms may be a lot in a real time system. But we're talking about 150uS only a factor of a thousand faster.

That's good then. Apologies for the misread.