Bandwidth management
Within an organization’s network, many devices and users are sending and receiving messages to/from each other. Some users are uploading and downloading files from the internet, while others are having a teleconference meeting using a Voice over IP (VoIP) or Video over IP solution. Overall, many different traffic types are traveling along a network. Some of these traffic types are using a connection-oriented protocol such as Transport Control Protocol (TCP), while others are using a connectionless protocol such as User Datagram Protocol (UDP).
One of the major differences between TCP and UDP is that TCP provides guaranteed delivery for packets over a network. If a packet is not delivered to its intended destination, the sender will retransmit the message until the destination host provides an acknowledgment. Packets that use TCP as their preferred transport layer protocol have a higher priority on the network because TCP provides guaranteed delivery....
