Used high numbers of UDP packets over intercontinental internet links for mission critical applications for 15 years. 20mbit of UDP carrying RTP. Loss on a give

Used high numbers of UDP packets over intercontinental internet links for mission critical applications for 15 years. 20mbit of UDP carrying RTP. Loss on a given flow is quite rare, and the application helps (via duplication, or retransmits) As time has progressed increased from nothing to fec to dual-streaming and offset-streaming to RIST and SRT depending on the criticality. On the other hand I've seen people try to use TCP (with rtmp) and fail miserably. Never* use TCP. Or you know, use the right tool for the right job.