Fiber for Breakfast 2023 Week 11: The Treasury Department’s Multibillion Investment in Broadband

It is time to update our understanding of the primary factors directly affecting end-user internet performance. For over thirty years, industry and policymakers have collectively missed a key factor that drives end users’ internet quality of experience (QoE). In this Fiber for Breakfast presentation, Douglas Sicker, Ph.D., Executive Director & Chair of the Technical Working Group, BITAG (Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group), and Greg White, Distinguished Technologist, CableLabs, will define latency and its relationship to throughput and speed. Douglas and Greg will also describe the impact that latency has on user experience for applications and consider the sources/contributors to latency as well as metrics and methods for characterizing latency. They will close by discussing the current and future technologies to reduce latency.

Panelists:

Douglas C. Sicker, Ph.D., Executive Director & Chair of the Technical Working Group, BITAG

Greg White, Distinguished Technologist, CableLabs