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Stream Control Transmission Protocol

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Overview of SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol), outlining the main features and capabilities of SCTP. SCTP is a transport protocol that overcomes many of the shortcomings of TCP, namely head-of-line blocking and stream-oriented transmission. SCTP supports multiple streams within a connection and preserves boundaries of application messages thus greatly simplifying communication. Additionally, SCTP supports multi-homing which increases availability in applications with high reliability demands. SCTP inherits much of the congestion, flow and error control mechanisms of TCP. SCTP has its roots in telecom carrier networks for use in transitional voice over IP scenarios. However, SCTP is generic so that it is applicable in many enterprise applications as well.

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