Question: Why do Internet telephony protocols run on top of UDP rather than on TCP · Internet telephony protocols used to drive audio and video traffic Audio and video messages are more interested in speed instead of reliability Internet telephony protocols run on top of UDP rather than on TCP because of the congestion control of TCP which throttles sending in times of congestion on the network.
UDP is use because a connection is not needed to be maintained by some internet telephony applications.
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