“Your Flight Will Be Delayed by 5 ms” – Understanding Latency in AoIP Systems 

The presentation sets the scene by explaining the fundamental differences between circuit-switched packet-switched networks (in principal, the difference between traditional analog / digital and network-based transport mechanisms). While circuit-switched networks in principal are only affected by the speed of light and thus latency is a direct result of distance, packet-switched networks add a number of additional factors to the calculation. Even more complex, most of these additional factors are highly dynamical, depend on other factors or can be configured to match particular applications or use cases. The presentation looks at important factors like network technology and topology, stream and packet configuration, device implementation and many more aspects. It also describes the highly dynamic effect of other network traffic with respect to latency.