Recently, Comcast announcement The deployment of new ultra-shows latency technology for some high speed customers at home.
The new feature is in the form of an open technology standard, which means that any developer is free to use it in its application in order to reach the ultra-track latency.
What is latency?
In general terms, latency is the moment that flows between a request for information and its arrival.
- Sometimes the discrepancy can occur on a network, on a device, or both at the same time. Each time a signal is sent and processed, a certain degree of gap is to be expected.
- When you access the Internet, the delay or latency is measured by the time necessary for a “ping” or a sample signal, to travel from a source device to a server and back.
The deployment
Currently, the applications that use the standard include FaceTime on a variety of Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Vision Pro), as well as the mixed reality headsets of Meta, GeForce now from Nvidia and many games On Valve’s Steam Gaming Platform.
Ultra-affable latency should develop as new content providers and additional applications choose to incorporate the open standard into their services and products. When they are fully deployed, all Xfinity Internet customers will be able to benefit from it.
The deployment of the company will extend to cities like Atlanta, Chicago, Colorado Springs, Philadelphia, Rockville (Maryland) and San Francisco, quickly moving in other places across the country in the coming months.
The announcement is the latest development of the 10G initiative at the industry level, which will provide large-scale multi-gigabit speeds across the country. To learn more about the future of the super fast internet, see the NCTA website.