The Importance of UDP Transport

the uneeq digital humans platform offers an interactive real time experience for its users as such, it makes use of modern networking technologies to operate, similar to web meeting services udp vs tcp to maintain the highest possible media quality over any network type and network conditions, our platform primarily relies on the use of udp transport this enables audio and video communications to react in near instantaneous time to any network changes such as congestion, packet losses, jitter, delays and change in available bandwidth while the use of tcp is supported by our digital humans platform, it offers a lower level of experience in cases of packet losses or changes in available bandwidth this is due to the nature of tcp connections, where data is guaranteed to be delivered this guarantee relies on acknowledgement and retransmission mechanisms which can add latency where other packet loss concealment techniques work better it is highly advisable for all users of our platform to enable communications over udp whenever possible security the use of udp does not hinder security in any way uneeq makes use of webrtc, which in turn uses srtp (secure real time protocol) all media is encrypted end to end with any firewalls, nat devices and turn relay servers used along the path of that media unable to decrypt the information or be privy to it the udp ports used by the service are well known ports used by the web meeting and video conferencing industry, along with large ranges of ephemeral ports which are not meant to be used by any other known services