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CRTC sets QoS threshold for jitter


OTTAWA – The CRTC has established an appropriate quality of service (QoS) metric for jitter as it continues to define the broadband portion of the universal service objective.The Commission said Tuesday that in order to define fixed broadband Internet access service as a high-quality service, it must meet, among other things, a jitter threshold of 5 milliseconds, measured using specific predefined methodology.The threshold would be measured during peak times (i.e. from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. local time on weekdays), and from the modem at the customer premises to a server located off-net at the Internet exchange point in a Canadian Tier...