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The Near Future of Latency

By CableLabs — One of the first efforts CableLabs engaged in was to address what is known as “buffer bloat,” increased latency caused by large packet buffers in cable equipment. This was initially addressed by providing controls to manage the size of the packet buffers, allowing a reduction in latency.

Enabling Low Latency DOCSIS to Improve Latency and Bandwidth Utilization

By Robert Ferreira and Barak Hermesh — Over the last three decades, residential broadband technology has been advancing at a fast pace, from dial-up connections to gigabit services. The technology advanced in several vectors including manageability, reliability, security and privacy.