It's All About Reducing Latency in Cloud Infrastructure

By _EETimes Blog

February 3, 2016

Ravi Thummarukudy, CEO of Mobiveil Inc.
1/26/2016 00:00 AM EST

For semiconductor and electronic system designers, their mission will be to break the bottlenecks between the client and the massive data center complexes comprising the cloud.

In the highly competitive world of electronic commerce, speed is king, whether one is making a purchase or looking up information on line.

In his “Fast Company” article, “How One Second Could Cost Amazon $1.6 Billion In Sales,” author Kit Eaton stated, “Amazon calculated that a page load slowdown of just one second could cost it $1.6 billion in sales each year.

Google has calculated that by slowing its search results by just four tenths of a second they could lose 8 million searches per day—meaning they'd serve up many millions fewer online adverts.”

With Amazon and Google as the benchmark, it’s pretty obvious that everyone else providing on-line transactions of any kind is under the gun to match this performance.

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