From the course: Analyzing VoIP Traffic with Wireshark
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Real-Time Control Protocol - Wireshark Tutorial
From the course: Analyzing VoIP Traffic with Wireshark
Real-Time Control Protocol
- [Instructor] We know that Real-Time Transport Protocol is a protocol for media with real-time characteristics. However, we also need something to report on the status of the streams. Real-Time Control Protocol is a sister protocol to Real-Time Transport Protocol, that provides control information and statistics for an RTP flow. Now, RTP creates a session for each media stream. Real-Time Control Protocol controls the RTP session by passively gathering statistics, and reports information about each session. Real-Time Control Protocol then provides feedback on the quality of the data and characteristics of the stream to the media source, and other session participants, in order to help localize network problems, such as jitter. All sites should use a common type, such as Network Time Protocol, or Global Positioning Satellite. This helps support synchronized media delivery and jitter calculations. Now there are reports that are sent by all participants. Now this is whether it's a single…
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