What is a Lost packet and a Late packet?
PacketBand uses a buffer to collect and reorganize packets as they arrive from the packet switched network. The buffer can be configured to a defined size in order to catch the disorganized and transit delayed packets, without adding an unnecessary amount of extra latency to the system in processing time. Early and Late packets are packets which arrive outside the range of the Jitter Buffer due to being very late or very early (these are rare) in crossing the packet switched network. Lost packets are gaps in the packet sequence numbers, indicating that the packet was never received, and so was lost within the packet switched network. Early, Late and Lost packets are all unusable by PacketBand and the attached device and therefore are counted as Underruns.
