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Real-time Transfer Protocol (RTP)

Explanation Posted: 27/03/06

Real-time Transfer Protocol (RTP) has important properties of a transport protocol : it runs on end to end systems, it provides demultiplexing. It differs from transport protocols like TCP in that it (currently) does not offer any form of reliability or a protocol-defined flow/congestion control.

 

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