Why is it that voice and video traffic is often sent over TCP rather than UDP in today’s Internet? (Hint: The answer we are looking for has nothing to do with TCP’s congestioncontrol mechanism.)

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Why is it that voice and video traffic is often sent over TCP rather than UDP in today’s Internet? (Hint: The answer we are looking for has nothing to do with TCP’s congestioncontrol mechanism.)

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