PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Comcast is introducing the primary clients on the planet to a pioneering new, ultra-low lag connectivity expertise after they use interactive purposes like gaming, videoconferencing, and digital actuality. With the launch, Xfinity Web latency will probably be dramatically lowered to quicker than the blink of an eye fixed, at present when utilizing FaceTime on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, apps on Meta’s blended actuality headsets that may help this know-how, NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW, many video games on Valve’s Steam video games platform, and sooner or later on different purposes that select to leverage this open normal know-how.
“Our connectivity is the important thing to unlocking a world of leisure, sports activities, information and data and we’re continually pushing the bounds of community innovation to create an expertise that exceeds the increasing calls for of our clients,” mentioned Emily Waldorf, Senior Vice President, Shopper Merchandise, Comcast Connectivity and Platforms. “Fashionable purposes are real-time and interactive and require extra than simply quick speeds. Xfinity Web’s decrease lag occasions will probably be a differentiator for Comcast.”
With low-lag Web, Xfinity is as soon as once more breaking new floor on know-how that may assist to make sure its clients can reap the benefits of all the pieces the Web has to supply at the moment and into the long run. Latency-sensitive purposes will expertise much less delay, and a smoother, extra responsive end-to-end on-line expertise in comparison with different choices like 5G house Web, the place the community will get slowed down and the connection deteriorates when lots of people are on-line.
Initially, clients will see the advantages of the brand new know-how firsthand after they use FaceTime on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, apps on Meta’s blended actuality headsets that may help this know-how, NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW, or many video games on Valve’s Steam video games platform. Comcast’s low-lag expertise will develop to any further content material and software suppliers who select to leverage the brand new open normal know-how for their very own merchandise. When absolutely deployed will probably be accessible to all Xfinity Web clients.
Comcast has been testing low latency know-how with its consumer teams for the previous 12 months and people checks have met and even exceeded expectations. The preliminary rollout started and can develop to cities like Atlanta, Chicago, Colorado Springs, Philadelphia, Rockville (Maryland) and San Francisco, deploying in additional places throughout the nation quickly over the following few months. Low-lag Web is made doable by Comcast’s state-of-the-art community, which has been constructed to ship an distinctive Web expertise, ubiquitously, to greater than 63 million properties and companies throughout the nation.
