Low-Latency Readiness & Latency-Budget Worksheet

A one-page worksheet to size a low-latency live delivery target before turning it on: pick a latency tier from the product (VOD none / news 5–10 s / sport-betting 2–5 s / interactive sub-second WebRTC), walk the glass-to-glass budget line by line to find where your seconds hide, confirm you are chunking (CMAF) rather than shrinking segments, check the cache, origin-shield, and surge-capacity consequences of the extra request load, and verify both LL-HLS and LL-DASH device coverage — with the one