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Signals from space: SD-WAN marks the next stage in commercialized space-based comms

CIO Business Intelligence

Apply the potential of unrestricted internet access through a government and business lens, and the results are even more transformative – from helping intelligence and security services and offices operate in isolated regions, to environmental agencies conducting research in remote parts of the planet. SD-WAN, Telecommunications

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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

Spearline Testing

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. What is Jitter? What are the different Jitter Types?

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

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends

Network World

Network and infrastructure roles continue to shift as enterprises adopt technologies such as AI-driven network operations , multicloud networking, zero trust network access ( ZTNA ), and SD-WAN. Based on our analysis, the IT job market and opportunities for IT professionals are poor at best. Victor Janulaitis, CEO at Janco, in a statement.

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The Realities of Rural 5G Deployment in the US

Forrester IT

Early last week, Ajit Pai, the Chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced his approval of the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint. This will result in a third mega-carrier in the US mobile wireless market, which is a good move for consumers like you and me. I am glad this deal will now […].

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