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 ...

The time between initiating a request for a character in memory until it is retrieved. If the data are not in the cache, it takes longer to obtain them. See cache and latency. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...

Oculus VR Inc announced the Oculus Latency Tester in the company’s latest update. The device, which Oculus has been working on in the background, will allow developers to rapidly iterate during ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...