What Are The Effects of Latency in a VoIP Network?

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Given that latency is the time it takes a packet to reach a destination, and VoIP is a packetized conversation, latency in regard to a VoIP transmission is the time it takes a spoken word to reach its destination once spoken. If network latency is high the listener will hear the words and acknowledge the speaker later than a normal conversation and an unnatural cadence of the conversation may occur. Jitter, a close cousin of latency, is the variance in time that packets arrive to be assembled into a word and heard. If jitter is high, words will be broken and segmented. At this point, the communication has failed.

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