
Traditional VSAT Jitter & Latency
• A number of independent tests have noted excessive
jitter and latency for traditional VSATs
• Testing performed by a major operator found wide
variations in delay, jitter and voice quality
VSAT Configuration Metric Measured Value
Outbound ~ 6.5 Mbps
Return ~ 825 kbps
Committed Information Rate
(CIR)
Bandwidth On Demand (BoD)
Frequency Hopping
(Intended to improve BW
sharing)
Speech Quality
(MOS)
2.07
(Codec MOS is 4.1)
Round Trip Delay 988 – 1198 ms
Jitter Up to 183.9 ms
MOS near 2.0 is
considered Poor
Over 600 ms is
considered Poor
Over 50ms is
considered
Poor
39Comtech EF Data Proprietary & Confidential
This level of Jitter & Latency would degrade voice services while
making data services practically non-functional with throughput as
low as 100’s of bps to a few kbps
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