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Digital Plymouth: The Cost of Latency.

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Page 1: Digital Plymouth   Latency – V0.1

Mark Craddock Managing Director – Flexible Computing Ltd

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Latency

is a time delay between the moment something is initiated, and the moment one of its effects begins or becomes detectable.

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Latency

The word derives from the fact that during the period of latency the effects of an action are latent, meaning "potential" or "not yet observed". ...

Nothing happens during this period

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Google Example Google surveyed users and asked would you like 10, 20, or 30

results. Users unanimously wanted 30 Google increased the number of search results to thirty. Traffic

and revenue from Google in the experimental group dropped by 20%

Analysis: The page with 10 results took .4 seconds to generate. The page with 30 results took .9 seconds.

Analysis: Revenue dropped by 20 % due to the latency of displaying 30 results was 0.5 seconds more than the latency of displaying 10

Adding the checkout icon (a shopping cart) to search results made the page 2% slower with a corresponding 2% drop in searches / user.

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Trading: In today’s world of electronic trading, “a millisecond advantage in trading applications can be worth $100 million a year to a major brokerage firm.”

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AOL: Page views drop off as page load times increase. Users in the top decile of page load times view ~7.5 pages/visit. This drops to ~6 pages/visit in the 3rd decile, and bottoms out at ~5 pages/visit for users with the slowest page load times.

Shopzilla: A year-long performance redesign resulted in a 5 second speed up (from ~7 seconds to ~2 seconds). This resulted in a 25% increase in page views, a 7-12% increase in revenue, and a 50% reduction in hardware.

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Latency should be the single most primary concern for the Digital Plymouth Project.

If we (Tax Payers) are to fund and host a Data Centre in Plymouth it must provide the lowest latency services possible, if we don’t, the data centre will be a very cold and empty space!

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Use the lowest latency connections possible!

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Apollo Transatlantic Cable

Tier 1 Internet Access

Bude Cable Station

Co-Location Facility

Carrier Agnostic

Dual Redundant Routes

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Bude Cable Station

L/S POP Apollo POP

Latency - 5 ms

London Surrey

Plymouth Businesses

London Businesses

H2O - ISP

<5ms Latency to Docklands Enables synchronous data replication

<34ms Latency to New York Enables asynchronous data replication

PLINX

Plymouth IXP

London IXP

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TATA Transatlantic Cable

Tier 1 Internet Access

Highbridge Cable Station

Co-Location Facility

Carrier Agnostic

Dual Redundant Route, Poddington, Barnstable

Initial Discussions to provide 10Gb Connectivity to Plymouth

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<5ms Latency to Docklands Enable synchronous data replication

<34ms Latency to New York Enables asynchronous data replication

Highbridge Cable Station

L/S POP TATA POP

Latency - 5 ms

London Surrey

Plymouth Businesses

London Businesses

H2O - ISP

PLINX

Plymouth IXP

London IXP

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Opportunities Olympic Bids

▪ Low Latency Services – Docklands

▪ Connection Direct USA

Data Centre Services ▪ Hosting, Co-Location, Disaster Recovery Facilities

ICT Service Organisations ▪ No Longer Located Next to Data Centre

Call Centres (VOIP Applications) ▪ Student Population

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Google provides a user interface for the language Bork! Bork! Bork!

The Swedish Chef is a Muppet that appeared on The Muppet Show. He was operated by Jim Henson and Frank Oz simultaneously

He was one of the few Muppets to employ an actual puppeteer's hands, originally Oz's – that is, they were visible to the audience through his sleeves and facilitated handling food and utensils.

http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/