Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) is a UDP-based transport layer network protocol. HTTP/3 uses QUIC to achieve performance enhancements (e.g. simpler handshakes, multiplexing) such as lower latency media streaming.
User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is one of the main transport protocols used in IP networks. It corresponds to Layer 4 in the OSI 7-layer model of the networking stack. It is a “stateless” or “connectionless” protocol which means that features such as retransmission and flow control, if desired, must be
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