How Low Can You Go? Measuring Latency for Networked Music Performance Across Europe

We measured end-to-end audio and video latency for LoLa and MVTP across six European research-network links. One-way audio latency ranged from 7.5 to 22.5 ms. Routing topology mattered more than geographic distance. Enterprise firewalls were a disaster. Here is what we found.

26 August 2023 · 8 min · Sebastian Spicker