An organization is hosting an application in Europe, and customers in Asia are reporting slow response times despite their fast internet connection. What is the problem?

The number of application servers does not explain why users in a specific distant region experience slow response times, as the problem is geographic rather than capacity-related.

Network bandwidth determines how much data can be transferred at once, but the symptom here is delay in response time, which is characteristic of latency, not bandwidth exhaustion.

Network latency is the delay caused by the time it takes data to travel across a physical distance. The round-trip between Asia and Europe is thousands of kilometers, which introduces significant latency regardless of available bandwidth or application configuration.

Misconfigured application servers would cause problems for all users globally, not specifically for users in a geographically distant region.