Broadband Latency Explained

Panelist:

Douglas C. Sicker, Ph.D., Executive Director & Chair of the Technical Working Group, BITAG

Panelist: Greg White, Distinguished Technologist, CableLabs

Moderator: Gary Bolton, President & CEO, Fiber Broadband Association

It is time to update our understanding of the primary factors directly affecting end-user internet performance. For over thirty years, industry and policymakers have collectively missed a key factor that drives end users’ internet quality of experience (QoE). In this Fiber for Breakfast presentation, Douglas Sicker, Ph.D., Executive Director & Chair of the Technical Working Group, BITAG, and Greg White, Distinguished Technologist, CableLabs, will define latency and its relationship to throughput and speed. Douglas and Greg will also describe the impact that latency has on user experience for applications and consider the sources/contributors to latency as well as metrics and methods for characterizing latency. They will close by discussing the current and future technologies to reduce latency.

Fiber for Breakfast is a weekly 30-minute live video discussion hosted by our President and CEO, Gary Bolton, and features industry thought leaders on current topics that explore fiber as the critical infrastructure for 21st century communications as well as other connectivity and workplace issues.