High ping (or latency) in online games disrupts player experience and costs them matches and rankings. Here are a few things gaming companies can do to reduce ping to keep players happy and coming back.
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Gaming companies can significantly boost performance by deploying applications locally at the edge of the network, closer to user hubs throughout Southeast Asia. By taking this approach, it’s possible to reduce long-haul data transfers and eliminate issues like jitter, latency, and packet loss.
Esports and online multiplayer games have exploded in popularity in the last decade. This industry is growing particularly fast in emerging markets like Southeast Asia, India and Brazil, where internet user growth is much higher than in Western countries. In North America, internet users have grown 125% from 2010 to 2020. In contrast, internet users in Asia have grown 305% from 2010 to 2020.