Optimizing a VPN isn't just about picking a protocol - choosing UDP or TCP can make a big difference, too.

New so-called reliable UDP solutions offer an alternative to TCP. But are they worth the time or money to implement?

The idea was to implement the speed of the previous protocol called UDP (User Datagram Protocol) while adding security and network congestion management features.

UDP (user datagram protocol) makes no provision for flow control, acknowledgement of delivery, or retransmission. These tasks are left for the application software to handle. Developers choose UDP ...

So what’s the big deal here? QUIC is Google’s experimental, low-latency Internet transportation protocol over UDP, a protocol that is often used by gaming, streaming media and VoIP services.

SNMP revolves around Management Information Bases (MIBs), which are structured databases that define what information each ...

Google today announced plans to formally propose its network protocol Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). In other words, the company wants to make ...

HTTP/3 breaks from HTTP/2 by adopting the QUIC protocol over TCP. Here's a first look at the new standard and what it means for web developers.

Software implementations of UDP-based application protocols DNS, NTP, TFTP, Echo (RFC862), Chargen (RFC864), and QOTD (RFC865) were specifically found to be vulnerable to such network loops.