VietMX Staff asked 3 years ago
A UDP load balancer is a type of load balancer that utilizes User Datagram Protocol (UDP), which operates at layer 4 — the transport layer — in the open systems interconnection (OSI) model. A UDP load balancing configuration is often used for live broadcasts and online games when speed is important and there is little need for error correction. UDP has low latency because it does not provide time-consuming health checks (that is a feature of TCP load balancer), which makes UDP the fastest option. Unlike the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), UDP does not track data to ensure it was successfully transmitted and received.
