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Guide to Embedded Systems Architecture – Part 3: Transport layer (UDP) and embedded Java and networking middleware examples

The two most common transport layer protocols are the transmission control protocol (TCP) and the user datagram protocol (UDP). One of the main differences between the two protocols is reliability.
Computerworld

The Transport Layer: Understanding layer 4 of the OSI Model

I like to think of the transport layer as the layer of the OSI Model that enables more interesting traffic. While we network engineers may love a lot of the simpler uses of the IP protocol and ...
Network World

Telephony Protocols

This excerpt is from CCIE Voice Exam Quick Reference Sheets (Digital Short Cut), by Mark Lewis and published by Cisco Press. ISBN-10: 1-58705-333-0 Read Mark Lewis’ blog for Cisco Subnet here. More ...
Network World

Finding the right protocols for voice transport

When people speak of voice over IP, just concentrating on IP may tend to oversimplify the process. IP is only a part of the requisite protocol stack. Going down the protocol stack (toward the physical ...
Redmond Magazine

Microsoft Embracing Native QUIC in Newer Windows OSes and Edge Browser

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 ...
Streaming Media Magazine

Reliable UDP (RUDP): The Next Big Streaming Protocol?

All too often we shy away from the depths of IP protocols, leaving the application vendors such as Microsoft; Wowza Media Systems, LLC; RealNetworks, Inc.; Adobe Systems, Inc.; and others with more ...
PC Magazine

OSI model

Layers 7 through 4 are geared more to the application than the lower layers, which are designed to move packets from one place to another no matter what they contain. This top layer defines the ...