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Latest revision as of 08:37, 19 April 2018
The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a Transport Layer protocol, serving in a similar role as the popular protocols Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP). Indeed, it provides some of the same service features of both, ensuring reliable, in-sequence transport of messages with congestion control.
In a nutshell, SCTP was selected by the SIGTRAN IETF workgroup mainly because of these features:
- Connection oriented - Establish connection between endpoints.
- Reliable transport - Enable acknowledgment of data.
- Multiple streams - Separate data in independent streams of chunks in parallel.
- Ordered delivery - Guaranties order of data from each stream independently.
- Congestion control - Congestion control is stream independent.
- Multi-homing support - Enables transparent fail-over between redundant network paths.
TelcoBridges and SCTP
TelcoBridges supports SCTP as a mandatory component of its SIGTRAN implementation.