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Low Latency: How We Accelerated Live Streaming — and What It Takes
Published · By ModernTV · Updated
Key takeaway
What actually drives glass-to-glass latency in live OTT, and which trade-offs an operator makes to cut it down.
Where latency comes from
Glass-to-glass latency in live OTT accumulates across encoding, packaging, segment length, CDN delivery and the player's buffer. No single component owns it.
The trade-offs
Shorter segments and smaller buffers cut delay but reduce the cushion against network variation. Reducing latency is a decision about how much stability to trade for it.
Why it matters for sport
When a neighbour's television, a phone notification or social media reveals a goal first, the delay becomes a visible product defect rather than a technical metric.
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