{"id":2369,"date":"2019-02-19T12:24:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T06:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/206.189.135.142\/ip\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2020-05-28T23:33:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T18:03:46","slug":"udp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkinterview.com\/udp\/","title":{"rendered":"What is UDP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"netwo-in-between-content netwo-entity-placement\" id=\"netwo-576373744\"><div id=\"netwo-811003321\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1375203873676133\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1375203873676133\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2134143805\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><\/div><p><strong>UDP<\/strong> (User Datagram Protocol)\u00a0is a transport layer protocol used primarily for low-latency and loss tolerating connections.\u00a0Outlined\u00a0by RFC 768 it provides a best-effort datagram service to\u00a0an end\u00a0host.In\u00a0distinction\u00a0to\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/networkinterview.com\/tcp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TCP<\/a>,<\/span> <strong>UDP<\/strong>\u00a0just sends the packets with no packet acknowledgements\u00a0that\u00a0ends up into much\u00a0lower\u00a0bandwidth overhead and latency.\u00a0However as the individual packets traverse different paths between the sender and the receiver, as a result ,the packets\u00a0can be\u00a0lost or received out of order.<\/p>\n<p>Through <strong>UDP<\/strong>\u00a0a source host send messages to destination host with a minimum of protocol mechanism. Further as <strong>UDP<\/strong>\u00a0is transaction oriented,so delivery and duplicate protection are not guaranteed.\u00a0<b>UDP<\/b>\u00a0is generally used in video conferencing and real-time computer games. The protocol permits individual packets to be dropped and\u00a0<b>UDP<\/b>\u00a0packets to be received in a different order than that in which they were sent, allowing for better performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related &#8211; <em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/ipwithease.com\/tcp-vs-udp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TCP vs UDP<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"netwo-after-content netwo-entity-placement\" id=\"netwo-3970120200\"><div id=\"netwo-2571106805\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1375203873676133\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1375203873676133\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2134143805\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UDP (User Datagram Protocol)\u00a0is a transport layer protocol used primarily for low-latency and loss tolerating connections.\u00a0Outlined\u00a0by RFC 768 it provides a best-effort datagram service to\u00a0an end\u00a0host.In\u00a0distinction\u00a0to\u00a0TCP, UDP\u00a0just sends the packets with no packet acknowledgements\u00a0that\u00a0ends up into much\u00a0lower\u00a0bandwidth overhead and latency.\u00a0However &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":2399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,92],"tags":[6610],"class_list":["post-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-techblog","category-protocol","tag-protocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkinterview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkinterview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkinterview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkinterview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkinterview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/networkinterview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkinterview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkinterview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkinterview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkinterview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}