Since we spent a little time talking about the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) yesterday, this seemed like a good time to take a look at another Transport Layer function that is increasingly important today: the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). RTP plays an important role in providing information transport support to any application that has real-time characteristics. That would include things like making telephone calls or having video conferencing sessions across data networks. In today's PodSnack, I'll give you some background and explain the basics.

You can listen to (or download) today's featured PodSnack by clicking here, and you can listen using the Flash player below.

If you have an idea or request for a PodSnack topic, send it to podsnacks@hill.com! You can get a complete list of our PodSnacks here. You can register for our PodSnack series by RSS feed by adding this link to your podcast aggregator: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HillAssociates-LivingInAConnectedWorldPodsnacks.