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.
Read MoreBy 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.
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By Brady S. Volpe — As a cable operator, if you are the only provider in town, you’re safe for now — maybe. If you have an incumbent fiber provider, you are at tremendous risk of losing subscribers over latency.
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By Brady S. Volpe — Gaming is a billion-dollar industry with billions of players, and they use broadband to get there. I’ve spent a lot of time discussing the importance of low latency DOCSIS over the last couple of years on my podcast and YouTube channel.
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By Leslie Ellis — As the bandwidth builders amongst us advance the quest of multi-gigabit networks, a corollary term is emerging: “low latency.” Two words, always expressed together, in a semantic mashup that almost warrants removing the space between the two words: lowlatency.
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