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Re: Uses of UDP
Comparison between TCP and UDP
If you were to compare User Datagram Protocol (UDP) with TCP, the former is basically the scaled-down economy model that’s sometimes referred to as a thin protocol. Like a thin person on a park bench, a thin protocol doesn’t take up a lot of room—or in this case, much bandwidth on a network.
Another circumstance calling for UDP over TCP is when reliability is already handled at the Process/Application layer (in DoD Model).
TCP is for reliability while UDP for faster transfers.
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