The Transport layer

• Manages communication between Transport entities “end to end”
  • → Transparency of network nodes
• Main protocols:
  • TCP : Connection Oriented (CO)
  • UDP: Connectionless (CL)
• Other protocols (specified later):
  • SCTP (Stream Control Transport Protocol), RFC 2960. Created initially to transport telephone signalling over IP networks
  • RTP*/RTCP (Real Time Transport Protocol), RFC´s 1889, 3550. For transport of information with real time content:
    • Voice, video.
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