PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Comcast is introducing the primary prospects on this planet 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 might be dramatically lowered to sooner than the blink of an eye fixed, 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 may help 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 normal expertise.
“Our connectivity is the important thing to unlocking a world of leisure, sports activities, information and data and we’re always pushing the boundaries of community innovation to create an expertise that exceeds the increasing calls for of our prospects,” 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 might be a differentiator for Comcast.”
With low-lag Web, Xfinity is as soon as once more breaking new floor on expertise that may assist to make sure its prospects can benefit from all the pieces the Web has to supply at this time and into the long run. 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 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 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 may help this expertise, 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 utility suppliers who select to leverage the brand new open normal expertise for their very own merchandise. When totally deployed it is going to be obtainable to all Xfinity Web prospects.
Comcast has been testing low latency expertise with its consumer teams for the previous yr and people assessments 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 subsequent 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 houses and companies throughout the nation.
