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.

Google 's experimental QUIC protocol is one such new communication method that tries to get data across faster by using a language that is already in use on the Internet but not widely known: UDP.

DoQ replaces UDP with QUIC inside DNS' underbelly Today, by default, DNS queries are resolved via the standard UDP protocol. The problem is that UDP traffic is not encrypted and is available in ...

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.

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 ...

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