Microwave routes — Chikura #4

Original: Ryota / JJ1WTL — 504743524 · Original Japanese HTML

Published: 2024-09-09

English translation of the archived article text. The author’s first-person observations, uncertainty and later additions are preserved; this is not the research summary. Image contents are preserved as images, not silently incorporated into the translated prose.


The missing link in the low-latency microwave network for financial trading has been found. It is already clear from the preceding article, but here is the account reorganized from the microwave perspective.


What I was looking for

I was looking for the point where the following two beams intersect.

The far end of this beam from SoftBank's Maruyama International Relay Station:

The far end of this beam from Gotenyama:

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Conclusion

It was here. https://www.google.co.jp/maps/@34.9632131,139.9369912,52m/data=!3m1!1e3

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This is how the links arrive.

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At last, this frees me from all those trips to the Boso Peninsula.


Results

I have updated the diagram shown earlier.

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Here is the combined picture, including the other operators; click to enlarge. JOSADA TELECOM alone has a long-distance route reaching all the way to Ise City.

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[Corrections, November 6 and November 10: exchanged GTT and NuVo at Mother Farm and Ariake.]


Earlier posts

‘Microwave routes — Chikura #3’. https://jj1wtl.seesaa.net/article/501421051.html (English translation) ‘Microwave routes — Chikura #2’. https://jj1wtl.seesaa.net/article/501339301.html (English translation) ‘Microwave routes — Chikura’. https://jj1wtl.seesaa.net/article/500213645.html (English translation) ‘Microwave routes — Mother Farm’: HBC Mother Farm station, GTT and NuVo. https://jj1wtl.seesaa.net/article/500063022.html (English translation) ‘JA/CB-009’: HBC Tsumoriyama station. https://jj1wtl.seesaa.net/article/499916770.html (English translation) ‘Microwave routes — Toyosu and Shinonome’. https://jj1wtl.seesaa.net/article/499593521.html (English translation) ‘JA/CB-004’—Gotenyama: three stations on two towers inside Cosmo Classic Club; HBC Kamogawa-no-Inu station; HBC Gotenyama station on Mount Takatori. https://jj1wtl.seesaa.net/article/499505940.html (English translation) ‘JA/CB-002’—Kanozan. https://jj1wtl.seesaa.net/article/499180322.html (English translation)