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Why is UDP lease favored when compared to TCP?

Why is UDP lease favored when compared to TCP?

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Question added by Sijin Philip , IT Support Engineer , DFreight Shipping & Logistics
Date Posted: 2017/10/08

It will depends on the application.

TCP used mostly when communicating with the server. like browsing the net.

UDP used mostly in playing online games, streaming, VOIP, Video conference.

NASEER UDDIN KHAJA
by NASEER UDDIN KHAJA , Network Engineer , Eurogate Technologies

UDP is fast but it is unreliable. It doesn't give any acknowledgment and there will be no retention

Ravikumar Duraisamy
by Ravikumar Duraisamy , Staff Network Engineer , 247.ai

Coz UDP is Connection-less protocol and will not give any ack on the data transmission. 

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