Elio
Student Of The Blues
It looks as though the guys at JamKazam are actively making more improvements to further reduce latency. I received this email this past weekend. If anyone would like to give it a try for an informal jam, I am happy to meet up.
Hello JamKazammers –
We’re writing to provide an update on two important initiatives. This email is longer than usual, but packed with information for those of you who are interested in the details.
First, we have successfully completed two of three phases of our project to improve Internet connections and latency, with the following results:
As always, thank you for being a positive part of the JamKazam community, and we hope everyone is safe and well!
Best Regards,
Team JamKazam
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Hello JamKazammers –
We’re writing to provide an update on two important initiatives. This email is longer than usual, but packed with information for those of you who are interested in the details.
First, we have successfully completed two of three phases of our project to improve Internet connections and latency, with the following results:
- Connections
- JamKazam has historically used a non-traditional and creative mix of networking technologies to deliver low-latency Internet connections between musicians in online sessions. While this delivered best-in-class latency, it also resulted in a situation where about 85% of connections between any two musicians on our platform were successful. The other 15% of connections failed, resulting in the frustrating gray “no audio” status, where a pair of musicians could not hear each other in a session.
- With our new JamKazam network acceleration service, we are now achieving connection success rates of 99.8%, so the “no audio” problem should be a rare event. This portion of the new service is already released, so connections should be much more dependable. If you have tried the service before but given up due to connection problems, we’d encourage you to try it again now, as this issue should be resolved for almost everyone.
- Latency
- The first release of our new network acceleration service simply collected latency data so that we could see what is possible with the first release of the service. We now have a rich and incredibly deep set of data on user-to-user connections across the world, and, as an example, we have found that:
- For all the possible pairs of musicians in the state of California, we can reduce the Internet latency for 30% of these connections.
- For all the possible pairs of musicians in the United Kingdom, we can reduce the Internet latency for 23% of these connections.
- For all the possible pairs of musicians in Germany, we can reduce the Internet latency for 25% of these connections.
- For all the possible pairs of musicians in the state of Texas, we can reduce the Internet latency for 18% of these connections.
- For all the possible pairs of musicians in the Midwest region of the US, we can reduce the Internet latency for 26% of these connections.
- The second release of our new network acceleration service addressed the connection issues explained above.
- The third release of our new network acceleration service is the one that will actually deliver the latency reduction benefits for which we collected the data documented above. All of the guts of this feature are now there, but we have to finish some of the finer points to make this service scalable and reliable. We’re hopeful that we can release this final piece of the puzzle in about 4-6 weeks.
- It's also worth noting that the fight against latency is one that will be ongoing. There is much more that can be done. It’s just a matter of time and resources. So we are still near the beginning – not the end of the journey.
- The first release of our new network acceleration service simply collected latency data so that we could see what is possible with the first release of the service. We now have a rich and incredibly deep set of data on user-to-user connections across the world, and, as an example, we have found that:
As always, thank you for being a positive part of the JamKazam community, and we hope everyone is safe and well!
Best Regards,
Team JamKazam
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