Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Abstract-In this work, a precise method for end-to-end (E2E) latency measurement in satellite Internet protocol (SIP) network environment is proposed. Latency is considered a key parameter affecting the quality of service (QoS) and performance of communications. This is more pronounced in IP over Satellite. Metrics such as throughput and bandwidth performance of communications systems are dependent on latency, which also has a direct impact on other QoS metrics such as Internet packet transfer delay and delay variation or jitter. The upper limits of QoS objective performance metrics are defined by E2E latency for different QoS traffic classes in this environment. Therefore, there is a need to develop efficient methods for the accurate measurement of E2E latency in a SIP environment. Two case study scenarios were developed for satellite and hybrid networks to measure the latency in a SIP environment. Two Geostationary Satellite Network Services were used to compare the performance of the different scenarios and networks. The results demonstrate that at least 50% of the E2E latency is due to processing and transmitting IP packets over the satellite in both scenarios. Inconsistent latency behaviour was also observed from daily results at different times of the day, which may degrade performance of jitter sensitive applications.