"Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches." W.I.E. Gates.
Every week it seems that some organisation or other is making headline claims on a new latency figure. From two digit microsecond matching to low latency access to new trading facilities, the race seems to be on to determine who can report the lowest latency.
Sumerian CTO Peter Duffy questions whether the numbers we see in these headlines are at all useful. Read more in the Sumerian blog