A Latency Zone is a geographic area within which network round-trip time to a defined set of users or exchange points stays below a target threshold, used in site selection to place facilities close enough to serve latency-sensitive applications. For example, financial trading or real-time gaming may require a site within a few milliseconds of a major metro, shaping where edge and core capacity is built.
Category: Data Center Facility & Site · Subcategory: Site Selection · Part of the AIDC Technical Terminology reference.