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Glossary

Technology evolves at a rapid-fire pace. That’s why we’ve built an easy-to-use glossary to help you better understand the terms, technologies and trends that impact your business.

Latency

In an Ethernet-based network, latency is defined as the time elapsed since the start of transmission of the first bit of the frame by a source node until the reception of the last bit of the same frame by the destination node.