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madhuvarsha
2010-02-06, 11:12 PM
Jitter and Wander Measurement Guide (http://m2vtelecom.blogspot.com/2010/02/jitter-and-wander-measurement-guide.html)



Jitter and Wander
Jitter and wander are essentially short and long term signal rate movements across networks. SONET/SDH (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_optical_networking) are, by definition,synchronous systems which require phase (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_%28waves%29) stability in clock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_signal) and data (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data) signals throughout the network. Network elements (NE) are subject to a number of interference factors that can affect synchronisation and transmission (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_%28telecommunications%29) quality, resulting in bit errors, slips and data loss (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_loss). Jitter and wander measurements are deployed to quantify these errors and enable network operators to maintain synchronicity within acceptable limits.