Latency and Jitter

Latency is a measure of the delay experienced by traffic while traversing a data network and generally refers to the delay between two endpoints. Jitter is a measure of the changes in latency between these two endpoints.

Latency on the Unwired network is dependent on the type of access equipment being used.

Additional wireless infrastructure on the wireless backbone and core network also adds latency so the overall latency figure is dependent on the locations of the two traffic endpoints within the Unwired network.

Importantly operation in the private spectrum (3.5 GHz or apparatus) generally provides more consistent latency figures due to the known and interference free operation of the wireless equipment, resulting in lower jitter figures.