Just found this fantastic video that illustrates in the best way I’ve ever seen what latency really is.
Latency certainly matters for video viewing…
Two scientists from Akamai recently published a paper entitled Video Stream Quality Impacts Viewer Behavior: Inferring Causality Using Quasi-Experimental Designs. Now Akamai being in the business of optimizing internet traffic flows and particularly internet video flows, you’d expect the
Killer App is low latency…
As might be expected, some parts of this feel “normal” (facebook) but the photo browsing, the youtube video and especially the googlemaps walkaround are pretty darn impressive…
Latency will make or break the cloud economy
FTTP marketing often focuses on levels of bandwidth offered, and while that’s an important component of the service, it may not ultimately prove to be the most important: Latency is the often disregarded feature that could prove to be the