Moreover, he points out, enhanced online and mobile experiences require rich interactions, in turn implying both higher bandwidth and lower latencies.

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Such latencies will have to come down considerably if the next generation of internet applications, such as telepresence, high-definition video streaming and remote surgery, are to fulfil their promise.

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Traceroutes into Cuba through the new Telefonica path show markedly lower latencies than the Caribbean country's existing satellite-reliant connections, hinting that the cable has been flipped on -- at least in one direction.

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The first successful big data technology was enterprise data warehouses that implement massively parallel processing, scale to the petabytes, handle batch and real-time latencies with equal agility, and provide connectors to structured and unstructured sources.

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Speed of light is the scarcity that governs networks, whether on the surfaces of chips where signals move nine inches a nanosecond through miles of minuscule copper wires or across continents and oceans where latencies reach 60 milliseconds.

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