Many in the networking industry may not be aware that SCTP exists and the benefits that it provides end-to-end Internet communications. We use TCP over IP for most unicast communications and the ...

In the last newsletter we started discussing the protocol stack used for transporting voice over IP. Today we’ll move to the control for those conversations. By the way, before we get all those e-mail ...

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Microsoft this week described QUIC, an Internet transport layer protocol alternative to the venerable Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), in an announcement. QUIC 1.0 is "less than 4 months old" but ...

Most people who have written networking software are familiar with the TCP and UDP protocols. These are used to connect distributed applications and allow messages to flow between them. These ...