Wednesday, March 7, 2012
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Latency Demystified

Event type: Panel

Room number: 515A

Organizer: Andreas Färbert, ADVA Optical, Germany



Description:

The needs of high speed applications are often characterized by a single adjective: “fast”. Closer examination exposes “low-latency” to ensure fast information transport. Let’s consider taking a photo during a sporting event. A shutter speed of 1/1000s makes a camera fast. But, if the delay between pressing the button and the camera actually taking the picture is too long, the event already passed. The speed was fast, but the latency was too high.

Each layer adds latency while the information is passed. Layers near the application are made fast using high performance computers. Layers below are optimized by special flow control and protocols. Moreover, a lot can be done on one of the largest contributors to latency, the physical transport itself.

So let's look into several aspects of low-latency networks and discus techniques and strategies.

Speakers:
Doug Richards, Sprint, USA
Michael Strickland, Spread Networks, USA
Jim Sauer, ADVA AG Optical Networking, USA
Michael Frankel, Ciena, USA
David Mazzarese, OFS, USA
Francesco Caggioni, AppliedMicro, USA