What is Jitter
Jitter is an unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics in electronics and telecommunications. In the context of the Genie - monitoring platform solution. Jitter measures the variation in the ICMP response time.

Where is jitter measurement needed
Jitter measurement is usually needed to see the quality of streaming protocols such as:

• IP Telephony
• IP Television
• Video conferencing
• Video & music streaming

and more...

The product support
The ICMP agent has a functionality, that enables it to measure the jitter of remote stations. The method of measuring the jitter is by sending multiple icmp requests in a given monitoring cycle to the IP address, and then measuring the response time to those requests. The user can determine the number of requests that compose a single cycle. The output returned by the agent, is then processed, and average, mean,Max, Median and standard deviation are calculated.
The product supports limits on several statistical functions that can be applied to the differences in the response time such as:

• Mean Value
• Standard deviation

and others...
When a device crosses the specified limit an event handler can be launched, which runs a user command.