In this blog article we continue to analyze RTP and RTCP and we will see why Jitter Buffer is important and how it affects call quality.
As we saw in the previous article — SDP is not able to transfer media–this task is delegated to protocols such as RTP or RTSP.
RTCP (or Real Time Control Protocol) provides different levels of feedback about the ongoing RTP Stream.
The goal of RTCP is to provide information to the remote endpoint about the quality of service of the ongoing communication.
This is done by providing regular statistics about the amount of packets received, jitter, and packets lost (either via network or discarded by the jitter buffer). Continue reading “RTP, RTCP and Jitter Buffer”