Their man-in-the-middle positioning adds some latency to users' connection, but the Defcon rerouting suggests that it's too small for most people to notice.
Residing directly on the PCIe bus, this new addition to the Vector Series provides lower latency to data, faster file transfers and boot-ups, expanded storage capacities, and an even quicker, more responsive experience over the already blazing fast SATA III-based Vector SSDs.
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After the medical findings about asbestos in the 1960s, it became possible to sue for damages correlated with long-latency exposure to a substance.
Anyone who performs in, shoots, or edits music videos can see the tiny, observable latency endemic to lip-syncing.
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Latency used to be a concern only for the telephone people, eager to avoid an unnatural delay in conversations.
In practice, we found that we were getting 80-90kbps, well south of the theoretical 384kbps that we should be getting downstream -- but latency appeared to be somewhat better than what we'd typically see on an EDGE device, and that makes a big difference in the browsing experience.
If you want to pick an exchange, you have to look at how the latency of the infrastructure measures up today and what sort of a roadmap they have going forward to reduce the latency.
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But car entertainment and communication is mostly one-way, and the upstream is mostly narrowband and not sensitive to latency.
While a standard network adapter might have latency of 15 to 20 microseconds, Solarflare reduces that to below 3.5 microseconds.
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We have already in place the right technology infrastructure for our members and their customers with low latency market access to our trading platforms.
"Popular online applications like gaming, Voice over IP (VoIP) and HD video are some of the most sensitive to latency and packet loss over Wi-Fi connections, " said Bigfoot Networks CEO Michael Howse.
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However, to avoid such latency issues, users will only be able to connect the console to a PC on the same home network - although Mr Huang said it was an ambition to allow them to go "beyond the house" with future devices.
By deeply optimizing for the Google TV platform to achieve low latency cloud gaming mode, Ubitus can enable OEMs to offer over-the-top (OTT) cloud gaming services to their customers at ease and timely.
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Thanks to the cut-through architecture of ioMemory, the Fusion ioFX provides low-latency data performance tuned to manipulate digital content on the fly.
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In an attempt to keep latency down, Onlive has opened a new European server facility in Luxembourg, placing its computing systems closer to the people that are going to be using it.
The development of CUDA, a parallel computing architecture developed by Nvidia, the leading GPU company, in 2006-2007, changed everything, said Hanweck, who founded Hanweck Associates, to develop a low latency, real-time options analytics engine to price and manage risk for options using GPUs.
Of course, switching server applications or middleware to decrease latency can frankly be expensive .
Facebook, by contrast, has obsessively fine-tuned its back-end operations to eliminate latency, speed searches and reduce power.
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If you want gigabit performance across the network, especially without jitter and latency, you need to pay big bucks.
For investment banks, the data centers can provide co-location of their algo engines next to exchanges to reduce latency in high frequency trading.
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The inclusion of LTE will deliver high speed, low latency and ubiquitous connectivity to all users who require high-volume data access whenever they want and wherever they are.
Vidyo's technology is able to optimize the user's video experience to reduce latency with H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC), an adaptive codec that can ensure a more reliable video experience on best-effort networks.
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Conversely, Amazon EC2 is always connected to the backbone of the internet where round-trip latency is 5 milliseconds or less to most web sites rather than the 100 milliseconds seen over wireless connections.
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Satellite, surprisingly, came out as having the best throughput although before you rush out to get satellite service remember that the roundtrip latency (the time it takes a data packet to go from your PC to its destination and for an acknowledgement to come back) over a satellite connection is often in the range of 900 milliseconds to 1, 400 milliseconds.
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And they get to hold the jitter and latency very low while increasing their message rate from a few hundred thousand messages per second to 3 million.
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Other firms have used special protocols to get low latency, but at the cost of higher jitter, it added.
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It also provides low latency lines across the Atlantic to American exchanges in New York and Chicago.
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These programs are trying to reduce the latency between action, learning and adjustment.
But adding a lot more routers to the internet would complicate matters hugely and do little to solve the latency problem.
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Enter SPDY (no, not the Marvel superhero), which is an experimental protocol designed to reduce the latency of web pages.
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