That factor is latency. The best way to define latency is as lag: the span of time between when a packet or group of packets is sent from a source to a destination, and it's usually measured in ...

Sadly, you won’t find numbers on latency on the vendor’s battle cards—so we measured it ourselves to see the performance differences among some popular services. But first, let’s discuss latency. It’s ...

When the first mainframe computers were introduced the big challenge was to improve performance by decreasing the latency between spinning reels of tape and the processor—while also increasing the ...

Bangalore -- December 3, 2009-- Ittiam Systems announced its suite of ultra low-latency streaming systems that can deliver an end-to-end latency as low as 60 ms for high definition video. Designed to ...

The speed of a network is generally defined as throughput: how many megabits or gigabits your network can pump through its pipes in the course of a second. That's certainly important, but there's ...