T/TCP can be beneficial to some of the applications that currently use TCP or UDP. At the moment there are many applications that are transaction based rather than connection based, but still have to rely on TCP along with the overhead. UDP is the other alternative, but not having time-outs and retransmissions built into the protocol means the application programmers have to supply the time outs and reliability checking themselves. Since T/TCP is transaction based, there is no set-up and shutdown time, so the data can be passed onto the process with minimal delay.