PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Comcast is introducing the primary clients on the earth to a pioneering new, ultra-low lag connectivity expertise after they use interactive functions like gaming, videoconferencing, and digital actuality. With the launch, Xfinity Web latency shall be dramatically decreased to sooner than the blink of a watch, at the moment 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 expertise, NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW, many video games on Valve’s Steam video games platform, and sooner or later on different functions that select to leverage this open commonplace expertise.
“Our connectivity is the important thing to unlocking a world of leisure, sports activities, information and knowledge and we’re always pushing the boundaries of community innovation to create an expertise that exceeds the increasing calls for of our clients,” mentioned Emily Waldorf, Senior Vice President, Client Merchandise, Comcast Connectivity and Platforms. “Trendy functions are real-time and interactive and require extra than simply quick speeds. Xfinity Web’s decrease lag instances shall be a differentiator for Comcast.”
With low-lag Web, Xfinity is as soon as once more breaking new floor on expertise that can assist to make sure its clients can reap the benefits of all the things the Web has to supply in the present day and into the longer term. Latency-sensitive functions 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 expertise 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 expertise, NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW, or many video games on Valve’s Steam video games platform. Comcast’s low-lag expertise will broaden to any extra content material and software suppliers who select to leverage the brand new open commonplace expertise for their very own merchandise. When totally deployed it will likely be out there to all Xfinity Web clients.
Comcast has been testing low latency expertise with its person teams for the previous 12 months and people exams have met and even exceeded expectations. The preliminary rollout started and can broaden 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 potential 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.
