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Latency. It’s the invisible pain point of gamers around the world. Especially in the past few years, gaming has been about the lowest latency possible, as marketing ploys promising you’ll be a better ...

After years of discussion about what 5G will bring for businesses and consumers, it is finally becoming a reality. Mobile carriers are beginning to roll out their 5G networks as they attempt to be the ...

What is latency? In a word, it means delay. Why is latency important? That’s a much longer—and, for streaming, a much more costly—answer. Because, when it comes to streaming, latency sucks. To put ...

The advances in digital distribution have changed the game industry in the same dramatic way they changed music, video, newspaper, and book publishing. In fact, Newzoo projects the global video game ...

In general terms latency is a measure of the delay that occurs between the start of a transaction and its completion. In gaming for example, latency is the delay between clicking a mouse button, and ...

For some applications, the public cloud is only as good as the slowest connection to it. Latency of cloud providers – the amount of time it takes for a cloud-based service to respond to a user’s ...

IOPS, latency and throughput/bandwidth are all interconnected. IOPS = (Throughput / Block Size) * 1024 Throughput in MBps = (IOPS * Block Size) / 1024 I understand how to convert IOPS to throughput ...