Network Latency
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Revision as of 19:49, 3 April 2009
As an Engineering term, Latency refers to the span of time taken from when some action is initiated to when it actually takes effect. In computer networking, Network Latency commonly refers to the round-trip time of a network packet (also known as "ping").
