Next, you learn about the 4-layer IP stack and differences between the transport-layer protocols Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP).

A UDP server typically will keep no client state and will treat each message in its entirety as a separate entity. SCTP offers another variation, roughly halfway between TCP and UDP. An SCTP socket ...

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.

The next version of HTTP won’t be using TCP HTTP is switching to a protocol layered on top of UDP.

EtherNet/IP adapts CIP to work with key elements of standard Ethernet (IEEE 802.3 combined with the Internet Engineering Task Force’s TCP/UDP/IP suite). For example, it uses the transfer control ...

Microsoft this week described QUIC, an Internet transport layer protocol alternative to the venerable Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), in an announcement.

TCP is a byte-oriented protocol, and UDP is message-oriented. The majority of applications are message-oriented, and applications using TCP have to jump through hoops, such as sending the message ...