What do you mean by Network Latency ?

[Neel21]

Hi,

I don't know much about networking. I have heard about Bandwidth and I know about it but I don't know about Network Latency. So if anyone can explain me in detail, what do you mean by Network Latency ?

[SimonBoss]

The EDP term latency or network latency is an indication of the claimed time of a transfer of data between multiple computers on a network. The latency and network latency is typically reported in milliseconds (ms) and is a direct measure of the performance of a network. It does not matter whether it is a local network or to connect via dial-up, ISDN or DSL. The greater the amount of latency the greater the delay of the transmitted data.

[PreatORiAn]

The Latency predicts the one-way and round-trip delay of command and response packets over multiple LANs and WANs. The packet sizes, network topology and transmission speed, and client / server processing time. Within a computer, latency can be removed or "hidden" by such techniques as prefetching (anticipating the need for data entry requests) and multithreading, or using parallelism across multiple threads.

[electricsketchbook]

Network Latency is the sum of time delays within the network. The delays are basically formed by the propagation delay and transmission of the packet (this depends on the size of the package). There are other variables come into play such as the length of the buffers within teams of connectivity, that is returned to the sender and the round-trip time is considered the latency.

[Una]

latency, network traffic would have on the speed of light. That is, the farther the light has to the higher latency to travel. Purchasing a single fiber connection from point A to point Z is no longer sufficient to ensure an optimum speed of data transfer. Fiber networks do not follow a rule, a direct link between a certain "A" and "Z" position. It follows geographical contours in relation to roads, where tracks, or other types from the right was the path of the fiber. For this reason it is important to follow the exact route of your circuit to understand. You want to eliminate any wasted away. For dark fiber and lighting circuits, this is not an option for a typical service providers as they can be circled on an existing fiber path that does not vary in most cases are cited. However, one that can use to optimize network integrator includes several providers in a position to piece together the direct route, addition of new fiber construction, where necessary.

[AugieBenDoggie]

Latency (delay) is the time required software and network devices in preparation for the transfer of information on this channel. Total latency is composed of hardware and software components.

There are the following types of network bandwidth:

• Bandwidth unidirectional transfers (point-to-point ", uni-directional bandwidth), equal to the maximum speed with which the process on one node can transmit data to another process on another node.
  
• Bandwidth bidirectional transfers (bi-directional bandwidth), equal to the maximum speed at which the two processes can simultaneously communicate over a network.