Latency may be invisible to users—but it’s about to define who wins in AI. The opinions and analysis expressed in the above article are those of its author, and do not necessarily reflect the position ...

The time between initiating a request for a character in memory until it is retrieved. If the data are not in the cache, it takes longer to obtain them. See cache and latency. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...

The speed of a network is generally defined as throughput: how many megabits or gigabits your network can pump through its pipes in the course of a second. That's certainly important, but there's ...

There is a time window for every act of online fraud. When a transaction occurs, a fraud system must review it and decide if it’s legitimate before the ...

When the first mainframe computers were introduced the big challenge was to improve performance by decreasing the latency between spinning reels of tape and the processor—while also increasing the ...

You can’t beat the speed of light, but the right optical network design and component selection will get you pretty close In the race to shave microseconds and nanoseconds from transactions, ...