While TCP will continue to be the network standard until the QUIC protocol catches on, it's here to stay. It combines the best of TCP and UDP while offering unique features.

New so-called reliable UDP solutions offer an alternative to TCP. But are they worth the time or money to implement?

Google's QUIC, which stands for Quick UDP Internet Connection, obviously espouses the latter, but not for those usual cases but for things that use TCP/IP normally.

How does one decide between TCP and UDP? This question was originally answered on Quora by Keith Winstein.

UDP’s (and QUIC’s) counterpart in the protocol world is basically TCP (which in combination with the Internet Protocol (IP) makes up the core communication language of the Internet).

There are two main data transfer protocols -- Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP). If you only had to know one fact about each protocol, it's that TCP is slower ...

Enyx launches their TCP and UDP offload engines for the Intel Stratix 10 aimed at addressing the data center industry's growing technological needs.

A 2017 statistic showed that only 3% of all DNS queries were sent via TCP, and the rest being handled via the more insecure UDP protocol.

New so-called reliable UDP solutions offer an alternative to TCP. But are they worth the time or money to implement?