PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Comcast is introducing the primary prospects on the earth 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 decreased to quicker than the blink of an eye fixed, presently when utilizing FaceTime on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, apps on Meta’s blended actuality headsets that can assist 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 commonplace know-how.
“Our connectivity is the important thing to unlocking a world of leisure, sports activities, information and data and we’re consistently pushing the bounds of community innovation to create an expertise that exceeds the increasing calls for of our prospects,” mentioned Emily Waldorf, Senior Vice President, Shopper Merchandise, Comcast Connectivity and Platforms. “Trendy 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 can assist to make sure its prospects can make the most of every little thing the Web has to supply at present 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 dwelling Web, the place the community will get slowed down and the connection deteriorates when lots of people are on-line.
Initially, prospects 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 can assist 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 extra content material and software suppliers who select to leverage the brand new open commonplace know-how for their very own merchandise. When absolutely deployed it will likely be out there to all Xfinity Web prospects.
Comcast has been testing low latency know-how with its person teams for the previous yr and people exams 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 areas throughout the nation quickly over the following few months. Low-lag Web is made attainable by Comcast’s state-of-the-art community, which has been constructed to ship an distinctive Web expertise, ubiquitously, to greater than 63 million houses and companies throughout the nation.
