[asterisk-users] Re: SIP/TCP?

[George Pajari]

UDP is preferred for VoIP because by the time a dropped packet is 
detected, the retransmission request is sent to the originator, and the 
replacement packet arrives, it's too late (unless you are running a very 
large jitter buffer which introduces problems of its own).

Conversely if your network has sufficient bandwidth to ensure the 
retransmission happens fast enough, it has sufficient bandwidth to avoid 
dropped packets in the first place.

One of the problems is that some WAN switches/routers discriminate 
against UDP when they become congested because they reason dropping UDP 
packets will cause less of a problem (because they are not 
retransmitted) than dropping TCP packets (which will cause 
retransmissions and not alleviate the congestion).

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