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What Is: Jitter

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Today, telecommunications traffic largely passes over a packet-switching network and very often over the public internet. Jitter happens when the RTP packet stream traverses the network (LAN, WAN, or Internet) because it has to share network capacity with other data. What is jitter?

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What Is: Jitter

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Nowadays, telecommunications traffic mostly passes over a packet-switching network and very often over the public internet. Jitter happens when the RTP packet stream traverses the network (LAN, WAN, or Internet) because it has to share network capacity with other data. Other notable causes: Misbehaving hardware. What is Jitter?

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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

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As was subsequently revealed in Rogers’ submission to regulator Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the update “deleted a routing filter and allowed for all possible routes to the Internet to pass through the routers. It is the very definition of a high-availability system.

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The VoIP connection: Don’t be jittery with bad audio quality

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The ‘Jitterbug’ In telecommunications, jitter further refers to the variation in the latency/time delay of packets carrying voice or video data over a communications channel. WiFi is not necessarily secure or stable enough for our mobile devices to depend on for our phone calls. The dreaded JITTER is the largest of which.

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