Nothing is more frustrating – or suspicious – than a company claiming to have made technological progress without sharing how it was achieved. Zattoo’s recent announcement that it had cut live sports latency by up to 25 seconds just in time for the Euros soccer tournament this summer was an impressive feat lacking in any credible detail. Luckily, Faultline was quick to get to the bottom of exactly how this two-pronged attack on live latency was achieved, thanks to some exclusively meticulous guidance from the company’s CTO, Stefan Lietsch. These developments took over a year of R&D and required significant updates to both Zattoo’s internal delivery chain, as well as on the client-side devices. A bit of context is always…