Introducing the First Ultra-Low Lag Xfinity Internet Experience with Meta, NVIDIA, and Valve

We’re introducing the first customers in the world to a pioneering new, ultra-low lag connectivity experience that provides our Xfinity customers with more responsive gaming, video chatting and virtual reality experiences. The initial rollout began in cities like Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, and is now happening to the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Ultra-low lag connectivity is now being deployed in Oregon and Washington, and the rollout will continue through Spring with more locations being added across the country rapidly over the next few months.

With the launch, Xfinity Internet latency is dramatically reduced to faster than the blink of an eye, when using FaceTime on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro, apps on Meta’s mixed reality headsets that will support this technology, NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW, many games on Valve’s Steam games platform, or any other applications that choose to leverage this open standard technology going forward.

With low-lag Internet, we’re breaking new ground on technology that will help to ensure our customers can take advantage of everything the Internet has to offer today and into the future. Latency-sensitive applications will experience less delay, and a smoother, more responsive end-to-end online experience compared to other options like 5G home Internet, where the network gets bogged down and the connection deteriorates when a lot of people are online.

Initially, our customers will see the benefits of the new technology firsthand when they use FaceTime on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro, apps on Meta’s mixed reality headsets that will support this technology, NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW, or many games on Valve’s Steam Games platform. Our low-lag experience will expand to any additional content and application providers who choose to leverage the new open standard technology for their own products. When fully deployed it will be available to all our Xfinity Internet customers.

We’ve been testing low latency technology with our user groups for the past year and those tests have met or even exceeded expectations. Low-lag Internet is made possible by our state-of-the-art network, which has been built to deliver an exceptional Internet experience, ubiquitously, to more than 63 locations across the country, including access at more than four million homes and businesses in Oregon and Washington.