Calrec IP Primer Part 5: Latency/Jitter
Network latency is inevitable – there is no getting around it, it is a simple scientific consequence of distance.
Latency is a key component to audio networks – in fact, it’s all around us, at all times. Mostly we learn to deal with it; what we hear has a natural latency which we have learned to anticipate and adjust to.
On the other hand, jitter is a change in the amount of latency within a specific transmission path, and this can change depending on the pressures on the network. Individual packets of data can be delayed more than others, or they can arrive in a different order from what they were sent.
In this chapter of Calrec’s IP Primer we look at how these fundamental principles can be anticipated and planned for, and which parts of the network we should be concentrating on to help keep them to a minimum.
We look at the impact of packetization and switch residency time, QoS policies and in-flight delay. We will also take a look at where jitter can be introduced and how we can mitigate that through buffering and clever configuration of link offsets, designed to work in tandem with the network.
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